Sometimes we describe difficult times in our lives as winter, probably influenced by the famous line from William Shakespeare's play Richard III "Now is the winter of our discontent". Based on this idea, it has been another wintery year for us: from the call in the night about our son-in-law’s passing, Bronwyn spending half the week with our daughter and grandchildren to support them as they navigate the changes, grief and all those ‘firsts’, Max keeping Fosterton retreat pottering along,...

I've been thinking a lot lately about sacrifice, as we moved through ANZAC Day [1] , Ramadan [2] , Lent, Easter  [3] , Passover [4] . As...

I saw something similar to this question recently and it sure resonated!There are always funny, strange and crazy memes around the start...