I Am Very Busy and Important.

A dispatch from a time-poor smart phone wielder.

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, Instagrammed mobile phone shots should count for at least 500 words, right?

Don’t say you weren’t warned.

The new zine should be finished by then. Stay tuned to the Facebook page for regular updates.

Sowing season.

My mum and I were discussing that good old feminist quandary of balancing children and career when she told me, “you can have it all, just not all at once.” She met and married my … Read More →

Writing on location: The family home.

- What are you doing? - Writing. - What about? - Stuff. - What sort of stuff? - Stuff about things. - God, like you’re some famous author or something. Get over it, sheesh. Why … Read More →

Turn It Up.

I have a scorched earth policy when it comes to relationships. Once it’s over, it’s O-V-A-H. No drunk texts, no “let’s hang out as friends”, no accidental make-up sex which results in us getting back … Read More →

Vale Thursday.

Photo by Tori Pepper. Some bands are like an emotional TARDIS, transporting you back to a time and place so removed from the present that it’s hard to believe it ever existed at all. New … Read More →

Game on, moles.

It’s election time in Queensland. A quirk of scheduling means the state and local elections will be held within a month of one another, which means candidates will be battling the public’s campaign fatigue as … Read More →

Go west!

My zine got accepted to Aunty Mabel’s zine distro, which is run by the Perth Zine Collective. I did a sneaky copy run before work this morning, and they should be over the other side … Read More →

The bossiest shop in Rockhampton.

When I was in high school, Rockhampton’s East Street Mall was a terrifying place of empty shops and slippery tiles, populated by drunks and aggressive homeless people. They’ve cleaned it up a bit over the … Read More →

My week in photos: rain, music, rellies and Vodafail.

My love of playing guitar is greater than my longing to have manicured hands like other adult women. Blisters on my left hand are from playing bass, grazes on my right hand from playing an … Read More →