I found a job I really like the sound of ( Read more... )

The other night I accompanied my wonderful husband on a trip to a show his band was playing at. The show just happened to be the after party of a tattoo festival at Acacia Ridge. Unfortunately it did seem very "after" the party by the time they went on, but thats another story ( Read more... )

Being sick is something that doesn't happen to me terribly often. When it does I find it in some way cathartic. Illness flowing through my veins and penetrating every breath, the aches, the pains, the red raw throat. I even like it when my voice begins to disappear. In fact, I love it when my voice disappears ( Read more... )

Delicious moments linger in the mind ( Read more... )

The Australian Summer has a way of making itself felt. Long days of overbearing sunshine on long beaches and longer desert roads. The heat is unbearable, the flies uncountable and the season itself unlovable ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYuu2hHhzX4
(Fosters "I Believe" tv ad circa 2000.)

A few days ago I receive the following email from a group mailing list of friends. I feel, for my own benefit more than anyone elses, the need to deconstruct my opposition to it ( Read more... )

So slack, I only just voted, and it closes on the 20th January. Twas tough job, shortlist of 30, down to the following 10. Won by songs and artists whose names stick in my mind ( Read more... )

So it finally happened ( Read more... )

I was standing on a deck way up in the air staring out into the deep dark forest. In my hands I was holding the skin and seed of a mango. I was contemplating how hard to throw that mango skin into the forest, or should I leave it on the deck for the possum, or could I even throw it well enough in the dark to clear the branches, or would it just ( Read more... )