Do it yourself, with friends

by | 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...

Misty brain

by | 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...

The leisure brain

by | 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...

Beauty is seriously weird

by | 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...

Curry muncher

by | 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...