Personal

You may want to rethink that adult colouring book…

Adult colouring is all the rage at the moment.  You can’t go into a book store or department store without seeing a range of colouring books pitched at adults rather than kids.  A friend working in a book store even had one woman ask where they kept the adult colouring pencils!  (TIP: regular pencils magically turn into adult colouring pencils…

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Personal

Is candy crush the same as mindfulness?

Finally!  That level was really hard!  I hate to think how much time I spent on it – damn that chocolate!  Alright, onto the next… Oh no, I’m out of levels again.  Quick, buy more.  OK, here we go. If this sounds familiar to anyone it may be that you are addicted to Candy Crush Saga as I once was. …

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Creative

Chasey

First published on Catherine Deveny’s Gunnas Writing Masterclass site: The bell rang and we all piled out the door, splitting into smaller groups as we shuffled down the corridor.  In the breezeway someone shouted ‘tiggy on the oval’ and we all started running. The oval was soggy under foot after the rain over night.  Marty was the last to arrive,…

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Opinion

What are we doing to people?

What are we doing to people?  The plight of poor souls who we have locked in detention on Nauru and Manus Islands is probably inadequately documented but, even so, we have evidence of the torture to which we are subjecting these men, women and children for the crime of seeking a safe place for their families to live. What is…

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