Category: environment
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Food Packaging: Has The World Gone Completely Mad?
I am slowly educating myself about my personal impact on the environment. It helps when you have a daughter who works in climate science, and who helpfully reminds you each time you forget your recycled bags at the supermarket about how many turtles you’ve just killed. Photo by Vivianne Lemay on Unsplash I admit that,…
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Forgiveness And The Ability To Say Sorry
Ask any member of my family and they will confirm that one of my biggest faults is my lack of forgiveness and more pertinently my inability to say “sorry.” It is not something I can deny, and neither will I apologize for it – obviously. Perhaps my absence of empathy in this regard has something…
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When You’re Still Going To The Zoo At Fifty!
Sydney holds its Vivid Festival at this time of the year – a two-week extravaganza where the city is lit up with, well…lights, and luckily for us, a friend of mine organised tickets for us to celebrate this year’s celebrations at Taronga Zoo. Crikey! Crocs!I I like zoos and the old man could hardly contain…
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I Hope I Go Doing Something I Love
Laeticia Brouwer, a seventeen-year-old surfer lost her life to a shark yesterday, and shortly afterwards her devastated parents were forced to give the press their thoughts about her life – presumably, so they’d leave them alone to begin the grieving process. ‘She died doing what she loved,’ is a comment we hear often after these…
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The Problem With Inviting People Over Is Then You Have To Clean The House
We had the surrogate family over for Easter lunch yesterday; no pressure really but it meant that my slovenly attitude to housework was at risk of exposure and that the dust on the floors may need more than a gentle push under the sofas. It’s funny how that works: how you can live in denial…
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Why Is My Hair Thinning In Middle Age?
One of the greatest challenges in a woman’s life – apart from men – is to find the right hairdresser – someone who truly understands the fickleness of female hair. Once you discover your hairdresser, a bond of trust is formed that can be almost (if not more) precious than those you share with the…
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Middle Age, Weight Loss and Climate Change
If one step closer towards the end of the world is marked by Trump’s inauguration this week, then the heat wave in Sydney came a close second for me. A recent aerial view of Sydney. If the adult human body is made up of 60% water, there can be no biological explanation for how my…
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When Your Kids Selfishly Decide To Become Vegetarian
For the third time in her short life, NC has decided to give up meat and become a pescatarian. She is an environmental vegetarian which is apparently the practice of vegetarianism or veganism based on the indications that animal production, particularly by intensive farming, is environmentally unsustainable. Industrialised agriculture contributes on a “massive scale” to global warming, air pollution,…
LOUISA SIMMONDS 