What are your blogging New Year’s Resolutions?

The presents are opened, the recycling bins are choked with paper, and the leftovers are being served up meal after meal, so much so everyone is starting to complain and you say: “Enough! You want something else, go and damn cook it yourself.” The cricket is on the television*; there is nothing else on television…

Hot & Sick

It’s 36.4 degrees as I write this and its expected to hit 42 degrees sometime this afternoon. So we are stuck inside, as the concrete is even burning my feet; and after a childhood of non-shoe wearing, that takes some heat. Plus, last night I came down with a cold. This screenshot was me, 15…

Appreciating Australian Poetry – Gwen Harwood

I first studied ‘At the Park’ when I was sixteen years old as part of the poetry component of my HSC Curriculum. I first studied this poem at an age when I had no business, I think, to be studying it at all. At the time, I used all the perfunctory language I had been taught to…