Monthly Archives: April 2015
Where in the world?
In 2008 I spent several months traveling in France with a tobacco-perfumed host family as part of an exchange program. Whilst reminiscing I thought to myself, that the travel days spent traversing the countryside in France for some reason didn’t come close to the agony of the long distance family trips to Queensland. Why did, […]
E-waste: a living nightmare
Walking down the street yesterday I saw an old, tan television abandoned by the gutter. Not terribly long ago, I recall my Dad’s frustration at tuning in the dials of my Mum’s old Thorn television and precariously angling the antenna atop any flat surface to receive a signal. Once or twice the reliable old tele, […]
Am I a Barbie girl?
Growing up in a family of three girls, Barbie was at the center of our play time and often lost a limb being literally pulled to pieces during a squabble. My favourite was gymnastic Barbie whose joints moved and allowed her body to be dance and jump, or anything else your young mind could imagine. […]
Red Canister Diaries 