I haven't lead a traditional working life. I was very spoilt in the sense that my parents supported my dreams both emotionally and financially. This rankles a lot of people and I understand why, but I'm not ashamed of what my parents have done for me, I'm grateful. When I left high school I didn't …
The Joy of Sleeping In
I’m trying to be more positive. That’s a sentence that’s probably been written a million times (often as an intro to some thinly veiled complaining. Hopefully I don’t follow that route). I recently began reading Caitlin Moran’s collection of Essays, Moranthology. Towards the end of her introduction she wrote that her “underlying, abiding belief is …
Greed and Fear
A friend said to me the other day, every decision we is governed either by fear or greed (I’m taking greed to mean wanting something you don’t currently have, there’s nothing mean or miserly about it). It’s not hard for me to agree with this statement and when I reflect on my own life I’m …
The Internet
I have a first world problem for you. The internet at my parents (where I currently reside) sucks. I was recently staying in a charming coastal local with access to the NBN so returning this black hole (by anyone’s standards not just those with the NBN) has been particularly tough. The WIFI is so weak …
Why do you do what you do?
As an aspiring writer and an Arts student people don’t always take me seriously (one uncle made the same joke every Christmas about rolling up my Arts degree to use as a telescope and find a job, a couple of engineers I went to high school with suggested I use it as toilet paper). Even …
