Callista Cooper is a journalist with experience in national, regional and remote newsrooms. She is a recent exercise science graduate who is passionate about exercise as medicine and is fond of surfing, skate parks and nanna naps.
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A post-bushfire quest for Joie de Vivre
Looking back now, I feel again that sense of foreboding in late December when ash from far away fires started to sprinkle down on me, my family, neighbours and friends, as I pottered in the garden.