Adapt or Die Tryin'

Asleep in the Back.

2010-10-18T06:08:00.000-07:00

My Mum used to play this song while I slept in the back of our station wagon on long country journeys. I was always fascinated by the album cover images cos I was amazed at how such a big burly hairy man like Lonnie Mack could make such sweet, sensitive music. He looks so pensive and reflective wedged up in that tree...but if you could see past the soft-focus close-up I'm sure his t-shirt was

I love you - let me show you how much.

2010-04-20T12:56:00.000-07:00

Whale Beach

2010-03-07T16:50:00.000-08:00

This is probably the last excerpt I'll post from my novel...these have been the key pieces of the story that I have been revising, and now I kind of feel I need to finish off the rest in private, so to speak...I'll definately be posting any new material/projects at some point...I pulled this last one out for my friends Georgia and Jessie at http://Weartogetit.com.au who were very sweet to ask me

Family Tree

2010-03-03T18:14:00.000-08:00

All day at school we have been having water fights, the teachers allowing the chaos due to the relief it provides from the heat wave engulfing the city. In class I doze in the afternoon lull as Miss Cunningham draws strange diagrams on the blackboard. Genealogy, Your Family Tree, she writes. We have a composite class, fifth and sixth grade in the same room. The fifth graders are doing sums in

2010-02-17T17:31:00.001-08:00

Learn to surfI’m learning to surf. Some days I float confidently on my board, paddling it forcefully through the waves and out the back. I’ll select a wave, paddle for it, join it, jump to my feet and skid down the face into the trough, my arms waving as my feet find the right point of balance. I coast along, not brave enough yet to attempt manoeuvres, sometimes looking up the wave to see where

I'm Writing now.

2010-02-01T17:36:00.002-08:00