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.
The Girl with the Flower Tattoo
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...
The Sweet Sentimentality of Scarification
You’re wondering how scars can be sweet and sentimental right? Well let me tell you a story…
The Story Continues...
Here is part II of The Most Wanted Child in the Wimmera...
The Most Wanted Child in the Wimmera
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!”
Wisdom... It's Out There
These school holidays I found wisdom in four surprising locations, when I least expected it...
10 Clever Quotes for Chuckling
Here are some great little street smart quotes for those days when affirmations and inspirations just rub you the wrong way...
'Stuff' Editing - Are You Doing It?
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...
Two Moons and Warm Tea
A sci-fi short story about travelling to another planet and a revealing conversation...
The Insanity of Almost Dying
When death seems imminent, what does sanity look like? ...There were two busses to choose from; each equally clapped out and brimming with luggage and livestock. At the last minute we had a change of heart...
Bali Begin Again
Each morning is a new beginning, a second chance at life, kind of like editing a chapter of the book that is your life. This morning I woke up in Bali and felt keenly aware of this notion...
If The World Were Ending...
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...
Why Transformation is Frikkin Hard
'Transformation' seems to be the catch cry of our generation. In all areas... Business, personal, fitness, relationships. So why is it so damn hard?
Anti-Social Media
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.
Being Here Somewhere Else
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...
The Surprising Benefits of Lateness
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.
Asanas for Overcoming Sales Ewwiness
I don't know about you but sales and self-promotion make me go eww... But we all have to do it. Here's a different perspective that I find helpful when it comes to the dreaded S-word... And some asanas that can help shift you out of the ewwiness.
Vans Are Fun to Drive
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...
It’s Not Too Late
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...