This originally appeared on the now-gone JustB website. Mother Nature, we need to talk. The thing is, down here in the most southern part of the most southern hemisphere, our bones are frozen. We are grey, cold, tired and stiff. Our joints creak when we walk to
Someone sent me this question on ask.fm: It's interesting that Amanda Palmer is the kind of person of whom people ask this question. There's a certain loadedness to it: you wouldn't say "what do you think about Nelson Mandela?" or "what do you think about people
This bright spark has decided he's not going to call his child "gifted". The fact that his child is apparently not gifted doesn't seem to have factored into this decision, but you know, just in case anyone was wondering, in the event that his child had
You know that movie 50 First Dates? That's what living in the moment looks like. A man called Eckhart Tolle said, in his book The Power of Now: ‘You can always cope with the now’. In 2011, this man was labelled "the most spiritually influential person in the world". Quotes like
This week, we can identify those people who are brave on the internet according to their decision to post a photo of their face, sans makeup, with pock marks and wrinkles and the other things that the cowardly amongst us usually hide. That's how being brave
I am a person with feelings. Maybe more feelings than is strictly necessary, but that is neither here nor there. The internet is full of people with feelings. Strong feelings. It is a hive of hyper-awareness, a rushing river of emotionally charged issues. When the internet
I didn't apply to be part of the Human Brochure, because I am scared of flying and if I were to lose my head for a minute and get on a plane, it would be to Hong Kong and not Canberra. But some people did,
Apparently I found it necessary to buy a typewriter. The good news is that I managed to get it out of its case and on to my desk, whereafter I typed some words and lost my finger between the keys quite often (see Fig. 1). I've
If you don't know The Punch, it's essentially an opinion based website comprised of a series of "serious" blogs. Today they are running a story about Blogging and Journalism, and why the two ne'er shall meet. Because journalism is Proper Writing and blogging is Poetry
When I arrived at work this morning and pushed open the door, I found myself inside a dense cloud. As I walked down the corridor, I heard a classic winter chorus: coughing, sneezing and loogie hocking. In stereo. The cloud followed me to my office,
Should you find yourself brave enough to open the cupboards in my home office, you might also be buried alive under a cascade of notebooks. All kinds: small spiral bound ones with thick blue lines, big ones with watercolour paper, medium sized ones with graph