Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
9 Mar 2022Ukraine. Enough said. You know what I’m talking about. Even at extreme distance from the conflict, Melburnians have been horrified by recent events.
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Latest articles by Tom Hoffmann
The power of nostalgia
10 Feb 2022Over the new year I was excited to go and see part four of the Matrix franchise, The Matrix Resurrections.
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My name is Tom, and I am a long-suffering-no-longer Melbourne Demons supporter
10 Nov 2021As you would no doubt be aware, the Melbourne Football Club won its first premiership in 57 years back on September 25.
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Livin’ la vida lockdown
7 May 2020I turned and locked the front door.
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Why, oh why, can’t we?
11 Jul 2019Lately I’ve been singing our two-year-old daughter, Genevieve, to sleep
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The worst thing to lose and the best thing to have
8 May 2019“To spare oneself from grief at all costs can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness” – Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher.
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Religion: It ain’t sexy. Or is it?
4 Sep 2018From what I’ve observed, people tend to imagine Christians as being prudish and uptight when it comes to sex
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Moments
11 Jul 2018There are moments. Moments that provoke a reaction. Moments that strike a chord. Moments that (sometimes) even inspire change.
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The catch up
5 Jun 2018I recently spent a morning catching up with an old friend I hadn’t seen in about 10 years.
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Heroes and villains
8 May 2018In the 2008 Batman movie, “The Dark Knight”, the character Harvey Dent, the District Attorney of Gotham City, uttered a prophetic sentence.
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Dust to dust
9 Mar 2018One balmy March evening a few years ago, I found myself at a service station filling my car up with fuel.
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Assigning value to things
12 May 2017When I was a teenager I kept a seashell in my pocket.
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