I’m always reading about architecturally designed gardens that are supposedly ‘wild’ and ‘untamed’. Informal, maybe, but wild? Hardly. I mean, architecture and wilderness are fundamentally opposed concepts… aren’t they? I get that there’s an element of illusion involved; I just think it’s kind of misleading, and you can totally tell that’s all carefully engineered if …
I just got the greatest email of my life. A literary agent is interested in the Giggle Wiggle Chronicles. Janet McCallom sent me a request for the full manuscript of book one: Giggle Wiggle and the Shrine of Destiny. Within a minute of receiving the email, I had the book ready to send back to her. …
No one will ever understand frustration the way I do until they are unable to fall asleep, or finally drifting off to sleep only to be painstakingly awoken by the familiar ‘drip, drip, drip’ that has kept them up every night for the past three months. Even talking about it right now I feel my …
Sometimes I wonder how I passed my driving test. I barely know any of the road rules (despite my best efforts to learn them and get used to abiding by them) and I barely know how to work my car. I try to avoid driving as much as possible because of this, because honestly, I’m …
I’m not going to lie, the kids are beginning to get on my nerves. I love the little rascals endlessly, but wow do they know how to press my buttons. I’m a single father of two and it’s hard to work from home and look after my children at the same time. They’re both under …
I wonder what the road networks of the future will be like. Will they be engineered to meet the specific needs of self-driving cars? Will they be constructed entirely of solar panels, which somehow power the cars driving on them? Will they use some as-yet unknown technology to teleport travel pods along at such small, …
Another power bill! Didn’t I just pay one of those? I can’t keep track of my costs any more – between the house and the business, it seems like there’s something draining my funds just about every week. I know that personal and business costs are supposed to be kept separate but, as a small …
Ever since I came to the big city, I was getting increasingly frustrated at how people deal with metal these days. It used to be an art, the way blacksmiths would work with steel. They’d spend hours on a single sword, regardless of who they were making it for. It was delicate and precise, and …
Ha! Mum’s left her leftover food out on the bench again! This is my chance! I’m going to snatch it up before she comes back from wherever she has gotten off to. She didn’t pick up her keys so she hasn’t gone far. I’ve got to act fast, going to have to be crafty about …
Finally, I’ve started an emigration fund. For the longest time, I’ve wanted to move my whole life to Japan, mostly because I feel like it’s where I belong, but also because that’s where the cartoon industry began. I want a job in animation…preferably as a voice actor. Sure, Dinki-Dai in Melbourne is a pretty good …