I received a question via email last week and requested permission to post it here so I can answer. The main reason for this is because I hear this question a lot, in varying forms, and have actually been meaning to write about the topic for some time. So that’s a nice coincidence! The question: I…
For today’s installment of ‘The Creative life’ I wanted to talk explore a mother/daughter relationship and how that contributes creativity and accomplishment and immediately thought of Veronica and Kim Foale. I’ve known both ladies for many years now and both bring strength and conviction to whatever project they’re working on. Veronica Foale To…
We were guests of InterContinental Melbourne The Rialto for the purposes of this post. The InterContinental hotel chain has recently released their Planet Trekkers menu. This menu was developed by Park Lane InterContinental chef Theo Randall along with leading children’s food expert Annabel Karmel. We were invited along to give it a try and, given our…
The odometer read just over 500 kilometres when we took delivery of the Ford Territory Titanium. As you can see below, the road trip we took bumped that up big time. Now it’s school holidays, I’m looking forward to having a reprieve from the lunch making and uniform ironing and all the other little jobs…
Who needs to hear another ‘oh woe, I’m sick’ tale, I know, but as I’m still wandering around the brain fog that I’m calling “whatever the hell I’ve got” I’ve done a lot of internet consuming lately (without a whole lot of creating). Here’s some of what I’ve been reading/watching that I think is worthy…
Read / September 16th, 2014
The first book I read was Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen. Franzen tends to be a rather polemic writer and as I was reading I felt a kind of… tension within myself, from piece to piece, that was interesting (if a little off-putting). I adored the title essay, an exploration of his grief following the death…
We’ve been away. When a very sick family member calls asking for you to come, you go. So we did. And now we’re home, all down with a bit of a lurgy, but back all the same. I made a video about the road trip, made in a Ford Territory Titanium which we’ve got for…
The ‘blog to book’ transition has become normalised enough that it forms the basis of many conference or festival panels around the country, featuring successful writers who went their own way or who caught the attention from publishers with their blogging activities. One of these writers is Lorelei Vashti. Her blog ‘Dress, memory’ (dressmemory.com) was…
This letter is the first in my ‘Write open letters of thanks to people who have influenced my life’ goal from my Living List To The Pharmacist Who Sold Me Baby Formula, It was a cold Saturday morning, and I was at the end of my tether. I’d gotten out of bed, dressed, and left…
