Like stress, there are good and bad forms of boredom. Is living a life of “good” boredom therefore a sign of success?
Living in a surfing suburb, I am often aware of groups of people of all ages who gather ostensibly to watch the surf. The bigger and more dangerous the surf, the more [...]

Gaffe and blunder prone they may be, but local government in NSW has managed to notch up one success, liquour law reform that has facilitated the (much needed) emergence of small hole-in-the-wall bars in and around Sydney
Success is not a word used often by Sydneysiders to describe the efforts of local and state [...]

While I may not be a digital nomad in the strict sense of the term, I still like to dream as I move between bases in Sydney, the NSW Central Coast, and wherever else I may go.
And sometimes it seems that my laptop (together with a wireless internet connection), and a mobile phone – probably [...]

While spending hours watching TV continually can become unhealthy, the real danger is in sitting for extended periods, something our desk based, car driving, and TV watching lifestyles promote.
“For many people, on a daily basis, they simply shift from one chair to another – from the chair in the car to the chair in [...]

Daniel Sinker has posted pages from Geoffrey Hoyle’s 1972 book, “2010: Living in the Future”, to help us assess whether or not we are yet “living in the future”…
Or you could go to Africa, and see all the wild game roaming around the national parks. It is very easy and cheap to travel by [...]

Junk or fast food, meals we may not ordinarily consider eating, take on a whole new appeal after a night on the town. Trust me, this stuff is tasty.
I’m not sure what propels us toward high-calorie food after a night of high-calorie beverages, but I do know that most of us tend to base [...]

Ran Prieur, author of “How to Drop out”, offers some sage advice for finding the (so-called) perfect job: keep money out of the equation all together.
What I recommend instead is to separate your money from your love. Get the most low-stress source of income that you can find, and then do exactly what you love [...]

I imagine if you can endure the zombification process – whatever that entails exactly – you may find the lower cost zombie un-lifestyle worthwhile.
Zombification is quite simply the process of turning into one’s self into a zombie. At first I found this trend towards a rotting unlife to pay the bills bizarre, but it [...]

“The Odyssey Years” are a relatively new term that refers to the period of a life person’s life between adolescence and adulthood, or the time after graduating from university, and settling into a career (possibly) and then family life (maybe).
During this decade, 20-somethings go to school and take breaks from school. They live with friends [...]

Another explanation of falling marriage rates versus the rising number of divorce? For some women marriage is simply no longer necessary for their financial well being.
In a nutshell, because single women, even those with kids, have an easier time supporting themselves outside marriage than they used to. More women are working, increasingly for wages [...]