A few months back, the Inspire Foundation ran a campaign they called Man Week. Designed to call attention to the terrible loss occurring amongst young men dealing with depression and suicide (according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the current suicide rate for men in Australia is more than three times the rate of women) […]
A few weeks back, I got a minor tear in my left calf. Of all causes, it was from tripping down a gutter to avoid a skater! You’d think I had better balance.
When these things come early in a process of re-whatever (I’m re-ing a lot of things), it’s easy to fall back into bad […]
G’day! I’m Steve Collins.
So, what’s all this then?
This is my (sometimes very) personal blog where I spend my time tracking my personal ups and downs, my demons, my victories and my efforts to return to fitness after too many years of neglecting myself physically and letting myself go.
I was inspired to start blogging here after realising, […]
A couple of weeks ago, my friend, Gavin Heaton, tagged me to write a ManWeek post. He wanted me, and the others tagged, to discuss what we thought it meant to be a man, and why. I didn’t respond then, because I had too many things bouncing around in my head to say anything coherent. […]