A busy Brisbane street cornerA sky-blue 1960s Olivetti typewriter A portable table, two camp chairs, a sign that said: Sentimental writer collecting love stories. Do you have one to share? The response was overwhelming. Strangers sat on the spare camp chair and out-poured love stories of joy, sadness, wisdom, yearning, unfinished business and so much more. Over two months in …
GOLDFISH MOMENTS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM?
Two young gold fish were swimming along and they met an older fish, who said “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” One of the young gold fish looks over at the other and said “What the hell is water?” This was a story shared by the late, great David Foster Wallace a brilliant American writer. Wallace said the point of the fish …
WHAT GETS YOU OUT OF BED?
Just yesterday morning, the alarm went off and I hit the snooze button, I then had a goose bump moment thinking about what my friend Rachel had just said to me the day before. But before that goose bump moment my mind was racing with a 100 excuses on why staying in bed was a better option than going to …