Taraz (@tarazkp)
continual writer
Not A Long Time
The oldest person in Australia recently died at the age of 112. She was born in 1914, before WWI even began. But in the story I was reading there were a couple paraphrased snippets from an intervie...
Closing Future Doors
Over the las almost two years, I have been testing a few different medications to manage my chronic stomach issues. However, none of them have worked as well as what I was on previously. The reason...
Catching the Biggest Loser
While politicians themselves and their backers tend to be in the highest wealth percentages, it should be interesting to note that there has been an ongoing shift over the last few decades where th...
Sunday Funday: 6th September, 2026
This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whateve...
Swing High
> I did nothing today. Maybe that is not completely true, since I still managed 15,000 steps during my nothingness. But really, I didn't do much. Smallsteps went to an amusement park with friends a...
WTF: After Dark
> We Talk Friday >(WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though ...
Eyes of the Lonely
> One in Five. While there are slight fluctuations either side, that is the global estimate of those who are very or fairly lonely. Young people are more likely to be lonely than older people, and ...
Representing the Masses
I always find having a bit of perspective useful. Getting a little distance to see the whole canvas before adding more paint, or putting complicated processes into a story that connects the dots. W...
Too Self-Damaged
I oft wonder what kind of trauma I carry from childhood. As despite somewhat being okay now, I also know that in order to survive life to this point, I have had to push a lot of things to the side ...
Words out of Silence
--- --- Words out of Silence Never silent always chattering, whispers in the ear I hear them so clearly, spill from somewhere inside Many voices of the past, and the words I fear to speak The perso...
Oversubscribed and Underutilised
For the first time in a couple years, I participated in a lesson at the gym. It was only a half hour flexibility session, but I was pretty sweaty after. Unlike many men, I do stretch, but I am not ...
1000 Shuttles
> That was a pretty fun event. I didn't know what this running race was prior to going and expected Smallsteps to be running against a couple other school's kids in some kind of final. Instead, the...
Run Forest
We have always tried to encourage Smallsteps to be physically active and since we have largely kept her away from screens, she spends a fair time outside playing about. However, I myself haven't be...
Made from Sticks
A friend has been sending me messages looking for advice on buying a house. I am not really the person for such advice, but I guess he wanted some perspective because he is up in the air as to whet...
Stress-free Married
> That was a good wedding. I am tired from it though. What I liked about this particular wedding was while there were some speeches, there wasn't a lot of program. Instead, the focus was more on pe...