My bags are packed and sitting by the front door, the four-day forecast looks perfect (sunny, warm but not too hot, not a chance of run), and I’m ready. The only problem is suffering through uni while I wait for the day to be over and the long weekend to begin. It’s not often in […]
Thanks for nothing mother
Having a sticky-beak mother is a challenge. No matter where I am or what I’m doing, she’s always itching to get in among the action. Actually, it’s not even that she’s trying to get in on the action, it’s that she’s always mounting a hostile takeover of the action. She’s forever trying to live vicariously […]
I clean dead people
My partner Wilson has one of the creepiest jobs in the world. He’s a cleaner for a biohazard remediation company. Basically what he does is crime scene clean up. It sounds like a very obscure job but is actually quite vital. Wilson has cleaned up scenes such as a shoot-out and double homicide, an industrial […]
Fear of the Ice
My psychiatrist says I just have to face my issues…makes sense, because if I don’t I’m out of a job. My entire career is built out of teaching people how to ice skate, so you’d think that would come easily for me. And it did, for my whole life! I was born in Canada, Banff […]
Judgement for skating
One of the hardest things about being a mother is, and I hate to say this, the judgement. Now, when I say that, I don’t mean that my kid is judging everything I do or that I judge other children, it’s that other mothers judge me and how I treat my kid. I realise that, […]
My love of giving gifts
When it comes around to birthdays, most people express dislike of having to buy gifts. I think most people feel inconvenienced by having to get a gift, and they worry that they won’t be able to choose something that the other person likes. There’s a lot of pressure, I can understand that, but I tend […]
My experience in a real life Tardis
There are some places where the make-believe infiltrates the real, where the line between fantasy and reality is blurred. None but the child’s supple mind can unearth these secret places as for adults, time and age have atrophied the sense which perceives the preternatural. Those of us who have been luck enough to stumble upon […]
My garden is a graveyard
Recently we had to do a massive clean up of our property in Melbourne. It’s not that we’re hoarders or anything but there was a lot of junk around and the garden hadn’t been tended to in years. I guess you could say that my wife and I are workaholics. We would have loved to […]
The Next Video Game Sensation
It is I, Marius! Ah, how well we know those iconic words. In fact, my very first video game ever was Ultra Marius Bro and Sis for the original handheld systems, and even though it was all sidescrolling nonsense without all that much of a plot, I really felt like I bonded with the characters. […]
Our weekend drive to the country
My kids are city slickers. It’s my fault for not taking them out into nature more often. The fresh country air is supposed to be good for you but all they’ve known is the smell of the city. Don’t get me wrong, I always spoil them with trips to the roller skating rink or the […]