Milestone birthdays have an effect on us. We reflect on past achievements, while simultaneously mourning opportunities passed; reliving distant memories, while planning distant futures. Mix-tapes, montages, bucket-lists, and resolutions. Today I turned thirty and I don't feel swayed by any of those. I'm not particularly sentimental - I don't hold on to the past, and I feel like I'm living the future already...

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I want to be a generous person. I presume you do too. Generosity is an incredible trait – being able to hold things not too tightly, to be open-handed, to give as we have been freely given to – yet why do so many of us struggle with it? I am happy to be generous, in fact I love being generous, and I...

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I've recently returned from a couple of weeks in Sydney. Sydney is my home town. We support the Sydney Swans, I can drive in Sydney without google maps, I could take tourists on awesome days out, I have close friends and family. But while in Sydney, I didn't feel at home. Yes, things felt familiar. It was comfortable. I knew backstreets and suburb...

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