by Jackie Bailey | Feb 2, 2010 | Random insights
My husband and I have started what appears to be a life-long project: renovating our house. To get us up and running, we invited a bunch of friends over for two weekends in January to have fun with power tools. Our object: to paint the doors and kitchen, fix the...
by Jackie Bailey | Jan 5, 2010 | Everyone's daily horoscope
Hale and well met, my fellow journeywomen and men of the sometimes paved, sometimes rubbly road to all our favourite things. This year will see you starting ebullient, smelling of good, sweet caramel (not the cheap sort), your self-sure smile lacing your determined...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 14, 2009 | Random insights
I have a misty brain today. have been looking for random insights, but short of telling you how rubbish the flu of pigs was (my excuse for not blogging these past few weeks), I find my brain a rather dull, confused place to live. So I will tell you all about my new...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 14, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
A week of playful indecision. Forget pronouns: cut straight to the chase. You like me, or you don’t. You want to be somewhere for Christmas, or not. You would rather be wearing perfume and bells than socks and sensible shoes; or you find greatest peace of...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 17, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
And what a week it is! Friends from out of town will blow you away with how much they care about you, and there you were, wondering if anyone still remembered your hopeful face. Chocolate coated tulips are just the beginning of their imaginative ways of telling you...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 12, 2009 | Random insights
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...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 8, 2009 | Random insights
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...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 7, 2009 | Self-publishing Mr Middleton's Teleporter
In which I just say no….I think. Yes, that’s right. No. It’s been some time since I updated you on Mr Middleton developments. This is probably because I have been hesitant, not wanting to disappoint, and not wanting to jinx future efforts. This is...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 7, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
This week, you will find the backbone you never knew you had as it transforms from spaghetti into kevlar in one, fell motion. Adversaries, believing until now that they had your number, fall back, confused and, suddenly, afraid. But you don’t need to wait around...
by Jackie Bailey | Oct 29, 2009 | Random insights
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...
