Garry Linnell is a Fairfax Media columnist and the co-presenter of the 2UE Breakfast Show.
You're in the middle of a conga line of motionless cars stretching 19 kilometres and the only thing to keep your mind off this situation is to fantasise about what you would like to do to the idiot who caused it.
Who said romance dies as you grow older? Here I sit, deep in the gnarly grip of middle age only to find an old flame back in my life, rekindling all that old magic.
This is a tough city and it demands the stoutest of hearts and minds.
No wonder they call it God's waiting room. Even He seems a little impatient today. Thunder beats a drum solo on the ceilings, black clouds draw a curtain on the light. And in the dining room on this sultry, stormy Sydney afternoon, the residents of an aged care nursing home are enduring the greatest trial life imposes on the old.
What we don't like to discuss is just how living in these new apartment towers will inevitably change the psychology of the city – and those who live in it.
Take your hand off it for a moment. Please. Hard to do, I know. The damn thing is the bane of my existence as well. It's like being the better half of an evil siamese twin. No matter where you go it's always with you, nagging, nudging, distracting and, even worse, playing with your mind.
Must we really state the bleeding obvious and point to a fact almost everyone on this planet has surely come to realise by now?
If you crave simplicity in your life, it's not too far away from the CBD.
In the middle of next week millions of Americans will front the ballot box and make a decision that, depending on your point of view, will leave their nation on course to become a complete smoking ruin or a richer and far more relaxed place.
In March 1907, Dr Frank Seccord and third-year student Andrew Prentice from the Sydney University history department set out on a horse and cart and headed west through the Blue Mountains. It took them seven brutal weeks travelling through harsh terrain before they finally settled camp at Capertee, a small farming village north of Lithgow.
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