Great Circle

This piece was written for us by Katy Lee. Enjoy!
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Driving to work I see expensive Rolex watches on the billboard. I get home to watch TV, and I am faced with commercials with the latest Lexus model. I turn on my computer to check my Facebook and I am bombarded with flashing ads selling everything [...]

Matt Heale has written for GC before. This is a welcome piece about (amongst other things) overcoming that “you have to choose” pressure we sometimes face when caught between two parties who are in dispute.
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Many of us have gone through our fair share of seeing neighbours come and go. Some we love and would hate [...]

by Matt Heale 
The film Rounders asks the question, “Why do the same bunch of guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker each year? Are they the luckiest guys in the world?” I say it’s partly luck, but most of all, it’s a skills game. 
After competing in pub poker tournaments [...]

by Jacob Share
Many newbies to the blogosphere get their first blogger’s block after 3 months of blogging but veteran bloggers can also run out of article ideas and get tired from spending too much time on each article. Sound familiar? This guide will help you streamline your habits on the way to blogging well for [...]

by Kathryn Elliott
I’m sure you all know the feeling.  It’s 3.00pm and you’ve been at work a while.  You’re starting to get bored, maybe a little hungry.  Suddenly, all you can think about is food. For some people it’s chocolate or lollies.  For those with a more savoury bent, it might be chips.  For me it [...]

My one year old son Adam is still not sleeping through the night. Jack, who turned five recently, conversely has been a champion sleeper from the beginning; born with the innate near-feline ability to sleep for 12 hours stretches and through disturbances with decibel levels that would not only startle most people awake but render [...]

The highlight of my summers every year as a kid was the annual trip to my cousin’s farm in Wyoming. He lived in Star Valley, a fertile river valley between two mountain ranges, and his farm was a boy’s dream world. Especially this boy, who lived in the suburbs where my most exciting activity was [...]

Karin H contributes today’s installment of our Carnival of War. She’s posted at her own site, and here’s a taste that starts midpost…
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We try very hard with everything to have the level of perception on quality wooden flooring fitters raised and then you’re treated like this: tarred with the same brush as all cowboys!
So, in [...]