Audra's Australian Adventures

Whaddya mean, Happy New Year?   It’s December 21 st … I don’t wish to write a treatise on the stupidity of the modern calendar and th...

What?!                 Yes, we are moving back to the United States. Why? I want to be closer to my family and the friends I have lo...

A little over 7 years ago, our life was in a bit of a lull.   Still reeling from the failure of our Mexico venture and the emotional chaos...

Compulsively, once more, I shuffle the deck and flip the cards one by one, sorting them into four piles, count the cards in each. Even. Resh...

I was feeling rather feral when I walked through my front door, like a precious housecat who had been locked out for 5 days and comes home...

I am not prone to wallowing in superstition, especially Chinese superstition, which seems to be the most abundant variety.  Nonetheless, I a...

Perhaps I was merely the victim of an effective marketing campaign or maybe my young tastebuds lacked discrimination, but in the early stage...

For several years now, I have had an increasing suspicion that there is no such thing as real value on Wall Street...that stock prices have ...

What is it about an island that so captures the human imagination?  Nothing erases the cares of the ordinary world so much as crossing a sm...

For various reasons which I am not allowed to fully disclose - perhaps it is merely a symptom of middle age and circumstance - my conversati...

I really should be working.  I have a ton of stuff to do...but the internet is a formidable distraction and for some reason, I suddenly had ...