I tried, I really did! Earlier today I visited the Red Cross Blood Service donor centre in Ringwood, Victoria, after deciding that despite a fear of needles, I still owe it to other people to donate my blood to save lives. I was doing some reading beforehand, and discovered that the fear of needles is [...]

Needles make me faint. I first found this out in grade six. We were heading to get those essential Hepatitis B injections, which required walking past many school buildings to get from our upstairs grade six classroom to the library. There, was a makeshift injection centre. This was going to be my first injection in [...]

It’s Blog Action Day tomorrow and while that’s about all bloggers around the world posting on a topic they want to generate action on, I figured it’s a good excuse as any for me to create some action on my blog again! Last post January 09? Hopefully I don’t leave it for that long again! [...]

What better way is there to break a long silence (one which I feel I need to break by updating what I’ve been up to) than to recap the events of the year… thanks to these questions I nicked off Nathanael’s blog. 1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before? Prayed [...]

That’s the box I had to tick when logging in to my blog tonight. Yes, that’s right. I haven’t been here for so long that even my blog had forgotten who I was, requiring me to login. Even though I tend to go missing here sometimes, I know a break of just over four months [...]