8 end-of-year favourites: a listicle
December 31, 2013
Dearest Reader, It’s been the biggest year of my working life. Bugger it, let’s not tone it down. It’s been The Biggest Year of My
Blast from the...
Category: deep thinks
What Steve Jobs’ perfectionism has taught me
July 17, 2013
It truly is an oddity. It’s become a talking point among friends. A joke at first. I can’t buy a couch. And it’s come to
Grandad has let go of my seat
July 3, 2013
My Grandad Frank taught me to ride. He would run behind me, wearing his vest as he always did, telling me I was doing great.
I’m an online dater and it changed me
May 9, 2013
There are a few things you learn when you do online dating. You learn about the different faces of humanity’s heaving, aching loneliness. You learn
today I’m wearing a dirty white T-shirt
May 1, 2013
Today I woke with a plan to wear my white long-sleeved T-shirt. I’ve worn it twice already in the past fortnight and it has a
My response to the anti-vax twit storm
April 11, 2013
* This post has been updated, 18th July 2014. Each week I get asked to join Seven’s Sunrise panel to discuss various topical issues of
Why I visited an abattoir
March 27, 2013
I think some of you noticed on my social media outpourings recently that I visited an abattoir in Tamworth. I want to explain why. And
An eccentric and some e-loveliness
March 14, 2013
I have days when I resent blogging. I’ve been blogging now for almost four years, 3-4 posts every week, largely unpaid for my toils, sometimes
things feeling shit-full? it’s ok…
February 13, 2013
I read The Art of Possibility a few years ago. It’s an odd book..I’m not sure that I get it entirely. But I like the
It’s better to feel normal about being abnormal
January 23, 2013
I like Henry Miller’s mind. I’ve written about it before. He expresses without apology. His writing just…goes there; it cuts through and doesn’t pause to