This weekend I have been completely engrossed in watching The Crash Course, which is Chris Martensen’s best attempt to explain exactly how we got into this economic crisis.
While The Crash Course is divided into small video sections of 3-18 minutes each, the whole thing runs just over 3 hours. We had it on DVD and watched [...]
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The Crash Course
Posted in Goals, Green Living, Inspiration, Movies/Documentaries, Simple Living on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Would you volunteer in exchange for a reduction in student debt?
Posted in Inspiration, Personal Finances on January 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Prime Minister of Australia has just announced a new initiate to encourage Australians to pull together to beat the rapidly worsening economic downturn.
KEVIN Rudd wants to recruit an army of young volunteers to help the elderly, feed the homeless, and clean up the environment.
In exchange for giving up their time, members of the new Community Corps [...]
Obama’s Inauguration Speech: What I took from it
Posted in Inspiration on January 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Like much of the world I watched yesterday’s Inauguration speech by President Obama. On my previous post, Tom from Escape from Suburbia left me the following comment:
I just finished watching the Inauguration and unfortunately, Obama said that we won’t apologize for our lifestyle. To me, this means that there will be little or no change in [...]
Link-love: The inauguration weekend edition
Posted in Carnivals, Inspiration on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s inauguration weekend. As an Australian living in the USA, I have to say I am so happy to be living here and having the opportunity to experience this historic event. Truly I (and much of the world) have such high hopes for the next four years of Obama’s Presidency. I truly hope he can [...]
Dreams – a look at life 5 years from now
Posted in Goals, Happiness, Inspiration, Simple Living, Travel on January 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Lately it seems I’ve been talking a lot about nitty-gritty personal finance stuff. It’s not what I had intended for this blog, but it seems that it’s what has had me pre-occupied since the beginning of the year. I need to get all that sorted out this month so I can think more about my journey towards [...]
Blogroll Update
Posted in Carnivals, Inspiration on January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have finally got around to updating my blogroll. A big thanks for all the support over the last month or so. I’m excited to get back into blogging this year and to building stronger relationships in the blogging community.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. I’m about to go out with Hubby and [...]
On reading
Posted in Books, Happiness, Inspiration, Simple Living on January 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I truly love to read. It’s the one thing that features in my memories from every stage of my life.
My father teaching me about the Solar System from the age of five and the quantity of books I collected about the Universe from a very young age.
My mother reading to me every night before bed [...]
