“Stockholm is the greatest city in the world,” I declared on Facebook after a night of drunken revelry in Södermalm with my Norwegian friend, her German friend and her German friend’s Swedish boyfriend. We went bar hopping, drank a lot of beer, I lost my wallet in a drunken haze, and then found it again… Read More Stockholm is the greatest city in the world
Coming from Australia, there are many aspects of American culture I feel at home with. But one thing that’s hard to make a comparison with is the overall urban environment. Take Palm Springs: a charming and unusual town I visited because of the mind-blowing TEDActive conference I blogged about last week. It’s a desert city with… Read More My weekend with Marilyn…in Palm Springs
TEDActive 2013 wasn’t a strange fitness-related event, which some people assumed it was from following my social media activity. The ‘Active’ refers to more cerebral kinds of activities. “It’s like nerd camp”, one guy said to me, and that’s closer to the mark. Yet saying that doesn’t quite capture what it’s actually like. The conference took place… Read More How I learned to stop worrying and embrace the shake at TEDActive 2013
The Travels of Elephant Woman 