MICHELE NARDELLI

Koala Diaries: Confessions, depression and fingers crossed

9th February 2011 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

OK readers...are you out there because I am about to reveal something.  I have been errant and not so disciplined.

Bless me readers, for I have sinned... it has been three months since I last blogged and well, you know,  there are no real excuses in confession. But for all of you lucky folk brought up without the stranglehold of feeling guilty for even thinking something bad, I will explain ...I...

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Koala Diaries: Games I can’t play

2nd December 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I am at an age where I should have learnt a thing or two but sadly I feel I must be like one of those naughty puppies at dog training school – yanking the lead just never seems to work for me – I just haven’t made it to the next grade.

I am talking about relationships here. Not just those of the romantic variety – god help me I seem...

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Koala Diaries: Written out

12th October 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

There will inevitably be a bit of irony in this post..well because I am writing at all ...and because what I want to talk about is that feeling that there is nothing more to say.

I write for a living...this is probably a great surprise to anyone who taught me in primary school because it was not my strong suit then.

In fact primary school was hardly the place for any form...

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Koala Diaries: Getting physical

20th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

It is Sunday morning here and I am deep in thought but a little twitchy with it.

I’ve just been for a walk in the crisp spring air. We are all longing for sunshine here and while the colourful Spring flowers are burgeoning forth, expectantly seeking sunny days, the sun is a tad shy and has only been poking its nose through the clouds every now and then – like a...

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Koala Diaries: Daddy’s Girl

6th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I am listening to Frank Sinatra in homage to my Dad....it is Father’s Day this Sunday in Australia.

It is almost as though he has appeared in my kitchen goofing about to the music...letting the little me stand on his shoes as we dance around to ol’blue eyes.

Dad’s eyes were a beautiful brown – rarely cold, often pensive and worried, but best when he was laughing or about to deliver the...

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Koala Diaries: That 50 year itch

1st September 2010 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I am on Facebook and those ads are there again – Find love in your 50s – but the faces staring back at me are 35 if a day.

You’d think they could do better than that. Are there not any attractive 50 year olds out there that they could drum up for the picture that gives a passing impression of touchy comfy happiness – all a tad too sterile really...

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Koala Diaries: My political deal breaker

19th August 2010 | 2 comments | 2 people like this

Ok I know I have been election focussed here, but it is now just over 24 hours till we all have to vote so this is one last hoorah on the Australian election.

The one thing going over and over in my head is the whole notion of truth and reality and where that sits in a political framework. I keep wondering what would happen to a politician who had enough...

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Koala Diaries: No Faith in Politics

16th August 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this

I  was in the main hall of the old Parliament House...the environment of my first real job....when a T-shirt came into focus.  I survived Catholic school it shouted as the wearer glided nonchalantly across the divide between the House of Reps and the Senate sides.

And as I too was a survivor, it was hard not to notice. Funnily enough the girl in the T was an old classmate...both of us...

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Koala Diaries: A Big Brother of an election

5th August 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

OK we are apparently halfway through our election campaign...my how time flies when you are having fun.  I should be engaged, enraged, fascinated and excited by the prospect of exercising my democratic right in this wonderful country of ours.

I am well aware that those less fortunate than me who have lived under all kinds of dictatorships walk for miles to polling booths to cast a vote when finally the democratic...

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