Just over 3 years ago I lost myself in sobs. I had forgotten what sadness felt like, deep wrenching heartbroken grief. I sobbed aloud, hysterically, madly for hours and hours […]

Today I slept in late, with a boring as hell nightmare about a new operating system on my phone reducing me to tears in public while trying to find my […]

This winter in Melbourne has been interminable. After the bracing thrills of rugged up hot chocolate high heating bills warm food fun of June and July, things just seemed to […]

This is an attempt to wrangle some wordage out of my miasma of dribbling lassitude. I am having a week of work to recuperate just a little bit from a […]

I am slowly crawling my way out from under the semester of hell. Hellish because I had booked myself in to teach fourteen hours per week at two different campuses. […]

My feature image is of a snowy foggy morning in Noongarabal country. The fog and snow prevented planes from landing and blocked roads, and provides an easy (cheesy) metaphor for […]

I have promised myself that I will write a blog post at least once a month. However, this is more than perfunctory: I have found myself bursting at the seams […]

I just spent 17 minutes bearing witness to a sideways video posted on youtube. It is a crowd shot, made with someone’s handphone, showing a really small and really brave […]

I need better words to wrap around the experiences of momentous changes and movements that I have experienced lately. Last year felt like a maelstrom, in which my words and […]

The feature image is one of my sketches from a (clothed) life drawing class held last September inside a detention centre with asylum seekers. It drew together three of my […]