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David Goodwin

Press Service International

David Goodwin is the former Editor of The Salvation Army’s magazine,War Cry. He is also a cricket tragic, and an unapologetic geek.

David Goodwin archive of articles may be viewed at  http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/david-goodwin.html

  • Give us this day our daily bread

    Many of us already know the pleasure that can be found in spending time with friends or family over coffee or tea or a meal. It’s an aid to conversation and can provide a focal point to bring people together.

  • Comfort Food for the Brain

    I don’t think of myself as particularly old, but I am old enough to remember when there was much less to choose from when it came to television and movies. Where I grew up there were only two channels and until we got a VCR if you didn’t tune in at the right time you missed out.

  • Open hearts, open goals

    You don’t have to travel to distant shores to experience culture shock, you can find it right here in Oz. I found this out one Grand Final weekend...wait, I should clarify, one AFL Grand Final weekend. Here in Victoria, it’s a BIG deal. Everyone, footy fan or not, is talking about it, it’s all over the news—to the point of making you wish the game had never been invented—and the weekend itself is now literally a public holiday.

  • Writing Fit

    While writers and exercise may not seem the most natural combination, it’s interesting that some of the lessons I learned during the massive lifestyle change I underwent when I started trying to get fit, and many of the things I found helped or hindered me, could just as easily be applied to my writing.

  • Every Heart Beats True

    Like a thief in the night, or a real estate rental inpection we forgot all about, footy season has snuck up upon us—even though it seems only yesterday we were in the grip of finals fever. Whether we look back with fondness on last year’s season, or prefer to forget it ever happened, is usually determined by how our team fared.

  • Anti Social Media

    It’s hard to imagine life without social media. From Instagram to Whatsapp, It seems like everyone has an account of some type, and when someone tells us that they aren’t on Facebook it comes as a bit of a shock! 

  • A friendly competition

    I’m a firm believer in the power of sport to make a positive change in our communities, but it’s important to remember that sporting organisations shouldn’t be expected to provide health care or welfare services—that’s not what they are designed for.

  • Enjoy Yourself

    We’ve probably all experienced it. Someone asks us what television show we are watching, or book we are reading, and we wish they hadn’t. Some of us may be blushing, or stammering slightly, as we explain we know we shouldn’t like it, that it’s not very high quality or it’s somehow problematic, as if we need to apologise for enjoying it.

  • IT adjunct

    Like most people who work in IT (in fact, probably most people today) I spend a lot of time on the Internet. Aside from the work applications, it's my first stop for information and the latest in current affairs.

  • Mens sana in corpore sano

    Over the past few years we’ve seen an evolution in attitudes towards mental health in sport. Where once upon a time we expected our professional athletes to be stoic in the face of pressure and valued toughness above most else, commonly exhorting players to ‘harden up’, we’ve come to understand the pressures that can be placed on people at the top of their field.