by cjharris | Sep 8, 2022 | current affairs, life, travel
Cancelled flights, missed connections, airport chaos, and a 72 hour journey home Of course I knew that travelling to Europe would carry some risks. But as I breezed through my five-week holiday, I skimmed over news articles about airport chaos and considered myself...
by cjharris | Oct 24, 2020 | activism, current affairs, politics
Once, in simpler times, I had a heated conversation in a bar after I criticised then-President Obama’s significant expansion of the US drone war in the Middle East. My friend accused me of being a “Bush supporter” and walked out without finishing her glass of wine....
by cjharris | Sep 13, 2020 | current affairs
No matter how hard you try, it seems you can’t escape your childhood. Even if you unfriend everyone you went to school with, leave the WhatsApp chat group, ignore invitations to your 5, 10, and 15 year reunions, and move interstate — you can still turn on the news and...
by cjharris | Aug 31, 2020 | current affairs, life, mental health
Today is Monday. I know because I checked my diary and not because it is any different to yesterday, when I had two work meetings on what was apparently a Sunday. People keep asking me how long we’ve been in lockdown now in Melbourne and the answer is truthfully, I...
by cjharris | Aug 2, 2020 | current affairs, politics
During this pandemic, my routine — and that of everyone in my city of Melbourne — looks something like this. Spend all morning waiting for the time of the Premier’s press conference to be announced. Wait for the press conference where today’s number of new cases is...
by cjharris | Jul 19, 2020 | current affairs, life, mental health
We are 10 days (ish? I lost count) into our second lockdown of 2020. That’s if you’re not counting the voluntary lockdown over the hellish summer when we were all confined to our homes because smoke made the air unfit to breathe. Remember when we thought the bushfires...
