I’m taking requests…hit me up.
June 18, 2015
While I’m out of here, would you mind telling me what you want from this site in my “new year” (when I get back). This is
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This is what it looks like when dads get parental leave
April 2, 2015
Many moons ago I did a political internship at Parliament House. I wrote a paper for Lindsay Tanner, then Member for Melbourne, looking at the worth
Is Sarah Wilson anti-vaccination?
March 26, 2015
The short answer is NO. So is the longer one. Consider this An Open Letter to Journalists Who Find Themselves A Little Confused. I’ll do
Solastalgia, a new type of unease
March 25, 2015
My interest in words that sum up melancholia or human yearning (in a way that standard English just can’t) continues. A Twitter friend (Dr Daz)
The joy of catching others in a vulnerable, unaware moment
March 17, 2015
I derive very happy jolts from glimpsing someone in the middle of a moment. An unawares moment. Some examples: A bike courier singing as he
The best advice to creatives ever: you have to go through a volume of work
March 10, 2015
When I lived in Byron (writing my first book) I used to drive to my friend Annie’s house in the hills for dinner on Sundays.
Sonder
March 4, 2015
The best words are the ones with no English equivalent. They invariably describe moments in the human experience that we find exotically ungraspable. Unpindownable. Fleeting.
Why my battle to tame my wandering is a good one
February 27, 2015
A thought. I was reading the follow-up to a wellbeing study I’d heard about ages ago that uses a phone app to track real-time moments
Am I a hypocrite?
February 25, 2015
There’s a horrible feeling that grips at me from behind the neck at times. It’s like a sucky monster that latches on when I do
I’m going to start auctioning lovely things for good food folk…
February 11, 2015
This is a new idea. Not complex. So let’s see how it goes. You may remember this wonderful painting (below) I shared on New Years