Red Symons
Red Symons finds himself between the covers
Some people read books. I read people. Including myself. In a room full of bookshelves I see a map of the psychic...
Fuel Red Symons’ ego for a moment while he spins a yarn from the road
You’re a distinguished and retired astronaut. You’re at a dinner party with a collection of interesting and attractive people. One of the...
Red Symons is feeling nostalgic as he reflects on the most magical non-Christmas
Somebody asked me if I was superstitious, the other day, and my answer was, “No. But …” There’s nothing magical about avoiding...
Red Symons ponders a very French solution to growing older
On occasion, I take lunch at the gentlemen’s clubs of the city. The food is that of the 19th century British boarding school,...
In the age of this media paradox, here’s why Red Symons said no to this interview request
In illiterate cultures, three or four hundred years ago, news was declared by the town crier and the minstrels. The minstrels, in...
Red Symons lays bare his greatest shames, and one gripe
I would like to add my voice to the ranks of those who find flaws in my behaviour. Yes. I was there...
Red Symons offers an Australian recipe for the 21st century, with a crucial question
Is there a uniquely Australian dish? For 40,000 years this was an unnecessary question, but in the past five or 10 it...
Red Symons as you’ve never seen him before explores the exotic lure of the influencer
My son posed an interesting question. If I could fast-forward my teenage self into the present, if I now had, the same...
Red Symons explains why he never takes time to smell the roses, or deodorant
Phantosmia. Remember that word. The afternoon was temperate and sunny. Promenading towards me, hand in hand, came a mother and six-year-old daughter....
Red Symons needs help to tackle this confusing Tiger trap
Dear reader, Crowdfunding is the seeking of financial assistance from interested and unknown contributors. Crowd wisdom, an untried exercise, is the seeking...