Movie Review: The Mystery of Henri Pick
A movie about a found manuscript. By now I thought I’d seen every movie permutation about writing a book, evidently not. The Mystery of Henri Pick movie provides a new…
Browsing: Writing
Does Social Media End Friendships?
Earlier this year in pre-Covid times, yes that’s how we view 2020 now, having arisen from the social haze that was Fringe, I caught up with a fellow blogger friend.…
Conflict-tared
In late February I was riding my bike along a main street in the Perth CBD when I was stopped in my tracks. A massive machine was oozing hot black…
Getting Lippy
Recently while watching a reality show I became obsessed with one of the participants lips. Every time she came on screen, I found myself staring at her philtrum, that are…
10 Lessons From Covid-19 About Life and Ourselves
Turns out Covid-19, the bug that crashed uninvited into our lives and refused to leave until we’d learnt our lesson, has actually taught us a thing or two. As we…
Covid-19 Hair
In March 2020 the Australian Government restricted haircuts to 30 minutes, making all women of Australia become more cognisant of the threadbare heads of our mostly male leaders. Clearly, it’d…
New Book: Tips for Working From Home
It’s never been easier to work from home, and 20+ years’ experience has taught me you can have as much, or more success working from home, if you just set…
Perth Festival 2020: Tips for Perth Literature and Ideas
Two years ago the Perth Writers Festival reformatted into the Perth Writers Week under a new director. All change requires time to settle in particularly after the program made been…
2019 The Year Of Finding Our Voice
As summer starts to bite and 2019 draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on the year that was. thanks to helanfronekmd
Author Update (Oct 2019)
Around ten years ago I took on the voluntary role of Social Rep for the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). The Society, which receives no government funding, is made up…
Return Of The Tea Lady: Column piece
Those of you privileged enough to have grown up with a school dinner lady, may recall suppers doled out with all the gusto of a bored prison guard. I missed…
Plastic Defence: Column piece
This month marks Plastic Free July and I for one am left with a slightly uneasy feeling about the timing of this campaign. An innocent coincidence? Maybe. Or used in…
Review Perth Writers Week 2018
Please note this review is for 2018 not 2019. For some reason it’s appears to have dropped off. I’m adding it back in as, during the recent Writing WA Forum…
Seven Rules For Beard Owners
Lately a strange facial hair dichotomy has been occupying my thoughts, perhaps some of you have been inflicted with similar distractions.
Movie Review: All Is True
Let’s be honest I know very little about Shakespeare, aside from watching Othello at Donmar Warehouse Theatre in London, and even then that was more to do with Ewan McGregor…
Movie Review: American Animals is a must see movie
It’s not often a movie offers up a new way of telling a story, American Animals provides a totally refreshing and rewarding angle to the classic heist movie. It also…
Perth Festival Writers Week 2018
Change is as good as a rest, or so they say. One thing’s for sure 2017 festival director Katherine Dorrington definitely deserved a break. Having delivered 12 terrific festivals the…
2017 The Year of Humanity
The following piece appears in my monthly column for Swan Magazine. Is it just me or do these end of year columns seem to be coming around quicker every 12…
