Magic Minute Is Santa Real? By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // A concerned 9-year-old Cyndy came home from school and said to her grandma, “Sally told me that Santa isn’t real.” Her grandmother explained that the sharing of Christmas is very real and Santa’s goodwill represents this. But not wholly convinced, Cyndy did what any […]
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Magic Minute Unexplainable Wonder By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Ever experienced something wonderful that defies explanation? Well, the first part of it happened on a nice summer’s day when I stumbled across the resting place of Lachlan Macquarie, Australia’s fifth Colonial Governor from 1810 to 1821, among the woodlands on the Scottish Isle of
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Magic Minute Lumberjack Shirt By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // I just stepped down from the platform when a youngish guy in a lumberjack shirt and a peak cap came over and said, “I really enjoyed your talk… What got you into this subject of speaking fear?” I shared the short version of my early
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Magic Minute Mind-Expanding Wonders By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // I can’t remember my mother ever reading us kids a story, so we had little appreciation of the wonders between the pages of a book. But I did catch a glimpse of these wonders in grade three where I’d seek out a well-worn book about
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Magic Minute Walking Tall By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Julie was terribly self-conscious of her height after being taunted by cruel kids at school for years. Even in her 20s she was still walking in a ‘special way’ to make herself look shorter to be like typical people. So boyfriends were scarce and didn’t
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Magic Minute The Great Camel Ride By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // At our Primary School Twilight Fair, I talk my tentative 8-year-old daughter into an exciting camel ride around the school oval to expand her knowledge and experiences of the world. “They’re very friendly and the man will lead you,” I said to shore
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Magic Minute Magic Mountain By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // When I first heard the term Tower Hill I thought, “Sounds pretty mundane and ordinary to me!” But on descending into the Tower Hill National Park I found myself at the bottom of a massive crater of an extinct volcano, 4 km wide with breathtaking
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Magic Minute Overnight Success! By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // We all come across special people who Inspire us as we travel through life. For me it’s people like Mr. Jackman in Primary School, old Bill Menzies in the junkyard and on it goes… all part of who I am today. In this latest segment
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Magic Minute Snakes Alive! By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Ever been staring at one of those illusory pictures till something leaps out at you in 3D? Well, that’s what happened to me in Western Australia’s Yanchep Crystal Cave. While admiring a big stalagmite a 6ft tiger snake morphed from the structure into my view,
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Magic Minute Misunderstanding By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // I just got on a tram when a smartly dressed young lady said, “Are you Laurie Smale?” “Yeah, that’s me.” “Well, I’m Susan Grimshaw and I was very jealous of you in grades five and six for you continuously out-shone me with Reading Writing and anything
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