Today, dear readers, I would like to take the opportunity to thank you all while also sharing some great news. Before I share my happy news, let me say that without all of you I wouldn't have this to share. You have all been here for me in more ways than you can possibly imagine, encouraging me, supporting me, spurring me on. Some of you have even contacted me to point out … [Read more...] about My Good News
Writing
The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect: Finding Sanctuary in Butterfly Town, USA, By Jennifer Lunden was a piece of creative nonfiction that I chose to present to my Creative Nonfiction class early in 2014, during the last year of my Diploma at Victoria University (VU). My Creative Nonfiction teacher, the wonderful Michelle Fincke, read the following analysis of 'The Butterfly Effect' out … [Read more...] about The Butterfly Effect
The Day I Fell in Love… with a font
One day in June, 2014: It was a rainy, damp day. Mould spores were antagonising my sinuses; and as I ruminated on the pain throbbing it's three month long beat: boom, da boom, boom, along the bridge of my nose, piercing its un-relentless way into the bones of my face, forehead and cheekbones, I pulled a snotty piece of cotton wool from my left nostril, and, tugging a clean … [Read more...] about The Day I Fell in Love… with a font
Dead Birds on the Sand
By Michellina van Loder For me, the song, ‘Teenage Crime’, is associated with dead birds on the sand; the obesity-inducing, type-2-diabetes-contributing drink, Coca-Cola; blood boiling and Tony Abbott’s semantic play with words “climate variables” instead of climate change; corporate irresponsibility; and the kindness of Swedish dance music producer, DJ Adrian Lux, of Swedish … [Read more...] about Dead Birds on the Sand
My Speech on Housing and MCS
Hey peeps, This is one of the things that kept me busy over the month of November, 2013: The Professional Writing and Editing, Diploma subject, Advanced Nonfiction, that I was doing at Victoria University (VU) had just wrapped up; and the last module covered was Speech Writing. I was most surprised and honoured when I was contacted and asked to give a talk on … [Read more...] about My Speech on Housing and MCS