Articles in the magazine
Former Master General of the Dominican Order, Timothy Radcliffe OP, observes in his latest book, Alive in God (2019) an interesting phenomenon regarding the inclusion or exclusion of words in a dictionary:
Art of rescuing lost words Read More »
One of the biggest issues for couples often revolves around their finances. They come into a relationship with different ideas about money which I refer to as money ‘habitudes’. That is, people have certain habits when it comes to spending their money.
Stressing out over money Read More »
It’s Summer! Did you know all through 2020, I thought Summer would never come? But the longest year ever is finally over and it’s time to enjoy the sunshine.
Firstly, if you’re going out, here are some suggestions for how to make the most of these long Summer days.
Summer survival guide Read More »
If I were to describe my experience in lockdown with my husband and six children in a not overly large house, I would call it “crowded isolation”. So much of 2020 has been spent negotiating space. Space to play and space to study. Space to be noisy and space to keep quiet (daddy’s on the phone). Do you want to build with Lego or play a boardgame? Clear a space. Want me to sit with you on the couch? Budge up! Make some space. Want to wrestle? Go outside. There’s no space for that here.
You beaut, Summer is here Read More »
News stories in the final weeks centred on the thousands of tourists who were keen to scale the monolith’s mighty heights before the ban took effect. And many did line up in their thousands for one last chance to climb Uluru. Most Australians were reportedly ‘comfortable’ with the decision to prohibit climbing but there were
The school year for students, teachers and parents has been difficult with COVID-19 presenting all sorts of challenges including remote learning. Melbourne, more than any other city or town in Australia, struggled with a second serious lockdown.
Students upbeat about job prospects Read More »
By anyone’s standards 2020 has been a difficult year. Drought, floods, bushfires and the pandemic have created the perfect storm of misery and gloom for many.
For those of us living in Melbourne it has been particularly challenging. Severe lockdowns and being virtual prisoners in our own postcodes for months on end have not been easy. For those who have lost their loved ones and their jobs, the year has been even more wretched.
The process of collecting words for the dictionary is gloriously democratic and collaborative, with hundreds of contributors sending words, their meanings and a quotation to illustrate meaning on slips of paper through the post. A team of lexicographers works diligently to process and consider each submission, carefully filing slips in pigeonholes in their scriptorium. A scriptorium is the writing room of a monastery and these men – assisted by young women – see their work as a calling.
The Art of Rescuing Words Read More »
1 September 2020 There will be so many people. Old friends and new friends and work friends and bring-a-friends. I’ll introduce friends from different social groups that haven’t met before and watch how they click. Maybe I could set some single friends up! It’s so long since there has been juicy gossip in my life.
Guide to isolating: an extraverts tale Read More »
1 September 2020 Let us calmly maintain our Christian balance, carefully avoiding over optimistic expressions of immanent success or dire predictions of worse to come. How ironic it is, that in an age of unprecedented access to information, during a crisis, thanks to social media, most of what you get is misinformation, hysteria and disinformation.
The pain scarring the world Read More »