I was considering titling this post “Fuck the Girl Code” or “Humans, the Stupid Species” but I didn’t want to start this piece of writing by flinging insults at readers like a primate flinging shit at a wall. I just did though didn’t I… my apologies, directing personal criticisms at my genus is becoming uncontrollable, … More Gender Roles Shmender Roles
Lisbon is a special place. I felt I’d stepped into a story by Cervantes where everybody was a passionate character, their story part of the evolving theatre of Life. I once again found myself in deep philosophical discussions with relative strangers – the last time that happened was with a Romanian communist in an Italian … More Photo Diary: Portugal
I promise to share a photo gallery of my recent trip to Portugal next time, but if anyone has read all of my very infrequent posts (bless) you’d have noticed my ever so slight *cough-understatement* obsession with human behaviour (don’t those who find it hard to understand certain subjects often obsess over them…?). I can’t … More We the Phoenix
The following isn’t a new thought by any stretch of the imagination I’m sure, and a theme that crops up in my posts often. So if you don’t mind, or if you do, I’d like to start the New Year by deliberating a characteristically heavy subject (and one I like to poke a facetious funny … More Homo Sapiens the Enigma
The dreamland was called Bordeneuve Retreat, a rustic barn dwelling in the Midi-Pyrénées nestled in the south of France and not too far from the Spanish border. Cocks crowed, wine flowed and flowers bloomed in colourful glory, butterflies drifted like chimeric fairies and bees hummed a chorus that was caught on the bars of a … More I Entered A Dreamland
I found it particularly difficult to pick photographs for this post, and what I’ve placed below are not exactly the best examples of my photography. But. Something about these images caught my attention as it reminded me of why I travel—those moments that make you stop and remember that you’re somewhere different, somewhere new; a moment-ago-distant … More Eurotrip! Photo Diary
Warning: content below may fall into the loathsome but unapologetic category of a rant… Everything is relative. I like this concept. I do. It allows an opaque veil of fairness to float dreamily over the screeching inequalities of this world, covering all manner of polarised injustices. How lovely. I’m sure by now you’ve detected my … More Here’s Looking at You, Kid
I’m a writer—sort of. O.K. an aspiring writer though I do have this blog… I’m pretty sure I actually heard the sound of scoffing, or maybe it was my future successful self who ubiquitously lingers around me as a constant reminder of my goal—the arrogant but necessary imagined cow. Well, when can one, or when … More It Takes A Little Courage and Fairy Dust
Oh, yes, yes I did. I resigned from a steady income, a respectable title, and the comfort of feeling like a good participant of society—that enormous man-made hamster wheel of ideologies that enables us to feel like part of the community. I was “comfortable” but increasingly miserable as I pressed my nose against the grindstone … More I Quit My Day Job
After the feverish brain-dump of my last post, I’m going to turn it down a notch and re-visit my holiday to Bali in 2012. It was a short eight day ‘learn to surf’ trip, but in that time the island gathered me in its nurturing arms and forced me, a busy no-time-for-a-toilet-break Melbournite, to slow … More Jungles and Waves (Bali)
