Ian McKenzie
Bio
Lover of life and all it has to offer. Retired from full-time employment, but keeping busy with things I am passionate about including: family, friends, photography, writing, sustainability and keeping Australian native stingless bees.
Stories (40/0)
Women Who Seek to be Equal With Men Lack Ambition
Intelligent, sensible, caring, understanding, personable, genuine, loving, literate, compassionate, empathetic, honest, having integrity, hard working, incredible: these are just some of the positive character traits of two women who are very special to me in my life. I could name them and talk more about them, but I am not going to do that. Firstly, these ladies may get embarrassed by my talking about them, and you may not wish to hear about two special ladies who you have not up until now heard of, and will probably never get to know either.
By Ian McKenzie4 years ago in The Swamp
People Are Wonderful
The Devastation March is the beginning of Autumn in Australia. However, judging by our temperatures, it would be fair to think that we were still in the summer season. Today is the third of March and the temperature currently in Brisbane is thirty-three degrees Celsius. For those using the Fahrenheit scale, that is over ninety-one degrees. Our 2019/20 Summer has been the second hottest on record, and a season during which we have experienced our worst wild fires ever.
By Ian McKenzie4 years ago in Humans
Ten Billion Dollars Will Help
“Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet”, wrote Jeff Bezos recently in an Instagram post. The world’s richest man has pledged US$10 billion to fight climate change, and Bezos is among many of the world’s wealthiest environmental philanthropists.
By Ian McKenzie4 years ago in Lifehack
Get a Dog Donald
Dear Donald You may consider me impertinent to offer you advice, but as you have appointed your own daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as presidential advisors, it would seem that qualifications and experience, in your opinion, are not prerequisites for the task of advising a president. Ivanka’s official title is “Assistant to the President”. That is the highest staff title held by anyone in the White House. Even your Chief of Staff is an assistant to the president. Jared Kushner’s title is, “Special Adviser to the President”.
By Ian McKenzie4 years ago in The Swamp
I am Australian
My Favourite Song Choosing the song about which I am most passionate is not a problem. Without any doubt, it is “I am Australian”. The song was written in 1987 by Bruce Woodley of the Seekers and by Dobe Newton of The Bushwackers. The lyrics were set to music by Bruce Woodley.
By Ian McKenzie4 years ago in Beat
What are Friends
A search engine check with “friends” as the subject gave a large list of results. The first, in fact, the first three all listed the American sitcom television series “Friends”. With a cast including; Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc; the series certainly had well-known personalities involved. Running for ten seasons from 1994 to 2004, the show was obviously popular as well.
By Ian McKenzie4 years ago in Humans