on the edge of ordinary

Ever since I stared writing here in 2009, I’ve been using this blog to reflect on the year just lived. For the last five years I’ve been usi...

I did my usual Monday grocery shop this week and was a little overwhelmed by the crowds. It was hard to get a park in the huge carpark under...

The past week has been full of things we've grown to associate with Christmas in Australia, things that we don't do or experience wh...

We have reached an interesting point in our careers. A point where people saying, "Wow, 23 years is a long time to serve." But the...

We have no more official speaking engagements now until February. That feels weird. It's six weeks since I wrote on this blog: "Las...

I've had lots of space for thinking recently. Sometimes it feels like too much space. We enjoyed the simple pleasure of catching up with...

Whenever I'm in Australia I struggle to communicate to people that we're not completely fluent in Japanese. And the longer we're...