Crone, Mother, Child by Niamh Moriarty The Hag, the Crone, the Crazy Cat Lady I have a confession to make. For the past few years now, I’ve been stocking up on cat food. I’ve driven past billboards of dream [...]
One morning, I woke up and saw these weird drawings of llamas on my bedside table. My first thought was that Little James had made me a card, then I realised the pictures were in my wobbly, middle-of-the-night handwriting. Slowly, the [...]
Spring is here tra-la-la! For our family, this means breaking out the communal Zyrtec, taking indulgent walks along jacaranda lanes. October is also when I finish my teaching contracts at uni and have three solid months of writing time. I’ve been [...]
I’ve been feeling strangely autumnal this winter. Taking late afternoon walks with Little James hasn’t helped this sense of displacement. I live in a place where seasons don’t have boundaries. At the local park, Lilly Pillies are still blooming, [...]
I’d been meaning to write about writing during the pandemic since April. Every week, it was scribbled at the bottom of my to-do list. Below re-writing the uni course I was teaching to run online and sneaking in a few Cosmic [...]
Solvejg/shutterstock.com Driving down the street today, the jacarandas are out in bloom. Once upon a time, when I was a uni student, this meant exams, no sleep, fast food on tap. Nowadays, as I finish up marking my students [...]
This week, I’ve been writing a lecture on gamification for my game design students. And as usual, when I’m busy with real-world (that is, paid) work, I’ve had to put my manuscript to the side. I can’t ever separate myself completely [...]
I’m not a writer who tally up my words, write up goals and mark them off in a diary. It’s partly because I don’t need the motivation but mostly because I’m too busy getting on with things to have much time [...]
A couple of years ago, when I had just decided to step up my game and give this writing gig a serious go, I attended a networking function. I don’t remember much about the evening. Most likely, I stood near the [...]
