Today is the first installment of ‘The Creative Life’ Kate Larsen is Director of Writers Victoria but she is also known by her writing name ‘Katie Keys’. It’s the name I first knew her by, due in most part to the #tinylittlepoems hashtag she created and has used daily for over five years. Her decision…
Over half a million words. This blog has come a long way. But I feel that it could go even further. Now the celebrations of the eighth birthday party have passed (the Xenomorphs took some chasing off!), I want to go in to detail about ‘what happens next’ and ‘where to now’? If I’m honest,…
Oh boy, this year I think I’ve cleaned out the library’s selection of cookbooks that have any kind of relation to gluten free or paleo or whole foods in general. Some have been too extreme for my liking – although I’m sure they have their fans – and others would come in conflict with what…
This photo was taken in the centre of Macau, while we were travelling overseas at the beginning of 2013. For new readers: we went over to Hong Kong – where Riley proceeded to break his arm! – as a sort of pilgrimage. Adam’s 98 year-old grandfather lived there in the 1930s, smack in the…
This poem (my attempt at a villanelle) is a re-post. I wrote it eighteen months ago for someone. I can’t write new words for fear of being nonsensical. My life has been touched by suicide. Just let me say this – if you’re in trouble, please reach out for help. Please. Restitution Don’t open another bottle…
Preparing for our Melbourne Writers Festival seminar, I’m reading Reservoir Dad by Clint Greagen. It is engaging, thoughtful and oh-ever-so cheeky, very much like his award-winning blog. Another MWF guest, Dave Eggers, has a new release Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever and I look forward getting stuck in to that. The Best Australian…
To explain: The Year of Creative Engagement (#yoce) is an attempt to document my creative journey in 2014. By putting greater stock in accountability and output, while also showing what new work I’m reading or listening to, I hope to have a richer, engaged experience. “What’s this movie?” Riley asked, sitting down next to me as the…
The first time I recall the music/productivity connection being mentioned, specifically as a tool to assist in studying, was back when I was in high school. I can still picture the stack of Enya and movie soundtrack CDs sitting beside my portable CD player. Funny thing is, I still have those CDs and I still…
What you see here is the remaining 400ml of the barium swallow I had to drink before undergoing a CT Scan two weeks ago. Ideally, you’re supposed to gulp down the lot, but – trust me – that’s a lot easier in theory than reality. It’s part-orange, part-chalk, part-soup. However, seeing as it was full…
