Today saw me catch a dream run into Brunswick, even at the tail end of peak hour traffic on Alexandra Parade, and thanks to arriving early for a meeting appointment I was able to grab a coffee on Sydney Rd. Sitting in the cafe, as I am above, I watched the people go by until…
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. Mark Twain. If there is one thing I notice about blogging, as both a writer and a reader, is that sometimes we do not take ourselves out of our stories enough to get the proper perspective needed to determine whether we’re telling them properly. Not unrelated to…
Second shot, clockwise from bottom left: stepping over the threshold into his classroom, his name at his desk, Adam holding my hand on the way home to keep me from blubbering or, to put it another way, losing mah shit. Riley is only on half days this week before moving on to full days next…
I feel I need to clarify that statement: ‘invest’ would suggest handing over vast sums of money (which we don’t have) for a painting or a statue that we would keep in the house and forever look over protectively, with a hand-wringing paranoia that it must not be touched or gone near. No, when I…
This is the first recipe I’ve made that I’ve followed down to the very syllable and as such I’m not comfortable posting the method like I have for most of the others so far. Luckily, though, I’ve found it for you via a scanned Google book (which is hardly any better copyright wise, I’d argue)….
I don’t know where to start, but this is a start so it’ll have to do. Or it could begin with my son’s wobbling lip, when I caught him balancing on a blue plastic step on top of a kitchen chair while he was hanging off a pantry shelf, trying to reach the top and…
Life / February 1st, 2012
When I was invited to be a part of the ‘Save Your Friend’s Skin’ campaign I immediately said yes. After all, my grandmother had skin cancers, as did my father. On top of that my mother, my sister and myself have all had moles removed before they potentially became issues at a later point in…
I’m really happy to be able to share with you some news today: I have been appointed as Program Manager at the Emerging Writers’ Festival. I’ve written a little more about it over at the EWF blog if you’d like to hear a little more. 2012 is off to a racing start!
I was recently reading the Bourke Street Bakery cookbook and there was a recipe in it for ‘oat and barberry biscuits’. Normally I’d skip past a biscuit recipe, but this one made me stop – foremost because I wondered ‘What on earth is a barberry?’ Then I looked at the ingredients and thought, Yippee! I…
