The leisure brain

I was just thinking… If we don’t have to remember anything any more, because we can just google it, how much space does that free up in our brains for more important, patent-producing work?  Like, I don’t know: nutting out all the calculations...

Beauty is seriously weird

I just had a realisation.  An epiphany?  No, just a realisation.  That will suffice as the noun of the moment. Do you remember the first time you said to yourself, “I don’t actually like the [insert popular thing that everyone is supposed to like...

Curry muncher

My friend, Roanna, recently published a short story on Eureka Street Online, called “Curry muncher.” Ro and I met about ten years ago, at a Varuna Writers’ Centre retreat for emerging writers.  In that week, I realised I did not want to be writing...