| Blog URL: | http://rodneyolsen.net |
| Blog Tags: | Media, Faith, Family, Australia, Radio, Cycling |
| Country: | Australia |
| State/Province: | Western Australia |
| Location: | Perth |
Rodney Olsen is a husband, father, blogger, cyclist and radio announcer from Perth, Western Australia. This is his blog. | |
on Apr 1, 2020 in: Australia
There will be an end to the current crisis. Plan now to do something amazing to celebrate when that time comes. Ride for Compassion Coast to Coast 2021 is a one-month, 4,000km cycle across Australia from Perth to Newcastle, to help raise money for ch...
on Mar 26, 2020 in: Life, Australia, Philippines
I was only away for a week, but I came back to a very different Australia to the one I left. Before I left, concerns were growing rapidly over COVID-19. Even at that stage a lot of travellers were cancelling their plans. There was nervousness in the...
Beyond the countless palm trees and green fields, amongst the sounds of jeepneys and motorbikes, there are lives marked by heartbreak and lost hope. Many of the people I’ll meet over the next few days have heard the voice of poverty saying, you are...
on Dec 31, 2019 in: Life
It’s over. 2019 is gone and 2020 has arrived. We’ve now entered the twenties. Over the last few days, there’s every chance you’ve been exchanging the customary greeting of “Happy New Year” with anyone who happens t...
(This is based on a post that I republish each year around this time.) While you’re unwrapping your gifts this Christmas I wanted to take a few moments to unwrap the real Christmas story. We all enjoy giving and receiving gifts on Christmas Day...
on Dec 23, 2019 in: Music
One day you’re walking through the shopping centre as normal, then the next day, WHAM! Not just Wham, but Mariah Carey, Michael Buble and a host of others singing Christmas favourites. I think I first heard Christmas music playing as the soundt...
on Dec 14, 2019 in: Australia
The eighties … a time of big music and even bigger hair. Yes, I’ll admit it. I had a mullet. As the eighties started heading towards the brave, new world of the nineties, we hit 1987. It was the year Aretha Franklin became the first woman...
