Dragon and the mango juice chalice

I wrote a piece recently reflecting on the new Wonder Woman movie and reflected that we don’t often tell heroic … More

Love letters to and from Dolly Parton

Love Letters to Dolly 1. I know you’re too close to the bins and their summer-time scent of festering … More

Wonder Woman and Nuclear Weapons

The stories we tell about peace and war have been top of mind these last few weeks with the release … More

Boxing with Boxing Day

If I were to take down the boxes from my Boxing Day store cupboard I would find days infused with … More

Listening with hope in our eyes and tears in our hearts

Storytelling. The drawings found in sacred sites around this land we now call Australia, showing the gathering of people together, … More

On being a small dog (With short legs) (And very bouncy fur)

Scurry. Quick. Pitter-patter-pitter-patter. Oh. No. Falling behind. Scurri-er. Quicker-er. Pitter. Patter. PITTER. PATTER. Whimper. Dejected wee flop of ears. rfff. … More

Dropped

Follow the faded forms, collapsed in on arms that once were taut. A pause in the here of now. Just … More

From the front fence

It’s a topic of conversation in my street, the state of my car’s wheels. They notice (those boys who use … More

Satisfaction

The wind has been brisk today, with just the right underlying warmth to do a pair of socks on a … More

Broken lives to the power of 14.2 million

Take this hand. This small hand. A girl, just now learning to form the letters of her name, beginning to … More