All in Life
Well, it seems that just maybe I did do some growing up in the last year, because this birthday I chilled the F out, and noticed that I knew some stuff that I didn’t know last year. I’ll spare you a list of 40, but here’s four: 1. Stop being so fucking hard on yourself...
Is there really any profound difference between 11.59 on the 31st December and one past midnight on 1st January? Is there such a thing as time and space? And just because everyone's doing it, does that mean we all have to be lemmings? ...Notes on new year resolutions, growing up and fun. :)
Falling into surrender can be the most bold and brave thing you’ll ever do.
This story was difficult. It came to me on the back of butterfly wings, through tears, like a jigsaw puzzle. A few pieces at a time. I didn't even realise it was a story until it began to assemble itself.
It was 1983 and I was turning seven. For my birthday my parents gave me a little brown plastic Fisher-Price cassette player, and two two tapes – Elton John and Carly Simon. I didn’t really dig Carly but I played Elton over and over...
You’re wondering how scars can be sweet and sentimental right? Well let me tell you a story…
One warm November day in 1926 a baby girl was born. The doctor held her up high and declared with a broad smile, “This is the most wanted child in the Wimmera!”
These school holidays I found wisdom in four surprising locations, when I least expected it...
Here are some great little street smart quotes for those days when affirmations and inspirations just rub you the wrong way...
Inspired by a TED Talk by Graham Hill titled 'Less Stuff, More Happiness', I got to thinking about all the 'stuff' in our lives... Both material and digital, and how happiness can be found in less...
Something a little bit different this week... A poem about the end of the world... There’d be giggles, And tickles, And cuddles, And fart jokes...
Social media has exacerbated our human habit of comparisons. Essentially what we're doing is comparing our background footage to someone else's highlight reel. Social comparison theory states that we do this in order to evaluate ourselves.
Gertrude Stein wrote... "There is no there, there." This idea rolls around in my head often, particularly in reference to travel. I love to travel to new places and have new experiences but often the looked forward to destination doesn't quite live up to the expectation...
Punctuality has never been my strong suit. I was born two weeks late and things haven't changed much. I've been vilified for it my whole life, so why do I do it? Why do any of us do it? Well turns out it may not be such a bad thing afterall!...
And before I knew it, that became the moment of connection two strangers needed to ignite a brief but intimate conversation.
This isn’t a parable or a metaphor. It’s literally a little scribble about driving a van. About being spontaneous. About finding fun unexpectedly. It's a little story...
I was sitting on the floor of my bedroom in a slightly seedy double fronted Victorian terrace in Melbourne. I had the cigarette I’d just rolled in one hand and a CD cover in the other...
As I was leaning over the pot, adding lashings of butter and a sprinkle of salt, it hit me. That aroma. Of steaming hot, cooked potatoes. Comforting, familiar, evocative.
