Some of you, my followers, may have noticed that I’ve been house-sitting up in suburban Sydney in recent times. The reason I’ve been doing this is because I want to see a bit more of my dad [who is 91 and struggling with his memory], as well as be able to spend some...
One of the bazaar things about dental practice ownership is that for some reason, new practice employees often arrive at the practice believing that they [the new employee] can do whatever they want, whenever they want, and that’s going to be ok? Regardless of whether...
I wrote last week about how a tree had damaged our home during violent weather conditions, and that I’d had to spend hours of my time on a virtual message chat with my insurer, that didn’t leave me satisfied that I’d be getting the correct answers. All I wanted to do...
Recently someone that I know had an unexpected medical diagnosis. This person, who has chosen to have regular preventive diagnostics on an annual basis since way back when, had changed her doctor to a new female GP [doctor] who during a routine examination wasn’t...
Two quotes came across my desk during the past two days… The first quote is one from Robert Stack, a favourite American speaker who I follow: “Experience has taught me that if you don’t fit in, you are probably doing the right thing.” I’ve been loving Robert’s...
It was so blowy at my home yesterday. It was that windy, it would blow a dog off a chain. Already in the previous eight days we’d had significant damage to three beautiful trees in our garden. And yesterday morning a fourth tree decided to drop a big part of itself...