Still Life With Cat

From the ABC website: A political party for people with disabilities is on the cusp of winning its first seat in an Australian parliament. T...

And, as the US holds its breath and the ABC website updates its news, Mr Obama clinched the votes of some of wavering Democrats this mornin...

One entire new blog and two whole years after the traffic sign that said TURN LEFT WITH CAKE , I still haven't had my eyes checked. It...

Tony Abbott's argument against the formal acknowledgement of traditional owners at public gatherings is that it's 'tokenistic...

I mean, can you think of anyone else who left school at fifteen who could make himself so vulnerable by, yet still somehow convincingly get ...

Can't make an omelette without breaking eggs; can't knit a book review without gathering wool. That's my story and I'm stick...

If I see the mindless expression 'spin over substance' trotted out one more time with reference to SA Premier Mike Rann and his gove...

As though the tragicomic episode a few years back about the Boy Who Everyone Thought Was but Turned Out Not To Be Tony Abbott's Son (so ...

On which of course I am at home, preparing for today's chairing gig, a session with Michelle de Kretser late this afternoon which I am e...

Writers' Week is about to start and I have to do a few things at it, so there's not been a lot of time to blog -- too busy trying to...

I've known since I was about fifteen that a week on a diet will not suffice to lose the weight that you've spent years dedicatedly g...

My very favourite part of my job doing short reviews of fiction every week for the Sydney Morning Herald is ripping open the bags and boxes...

This isn't the first time I've had cause to consider the uses of literature in thinking about how to live one's life and manage...

As I type, Elena Dementieva and Justine Henin have been on the court for two hours and they're not even halfway through the second set, ...

Took me a while, but I eventually thought of something worth saying to say.

You know how sometimes when you're dreaming there'll be a noise in the real world loud enough to impinge on the dream but not to wak...

At a predicted 43 degrees today in Adelaide after an overnight "low" of 29, and I gather it is even worse for my Victorian mates, ...

As we approach the end of the first week of January I've been thinking about how often the last week of January has, for me, brought wi...

Don't give your main characters names that are too fanciful, pretentious, un-euphonious, unusual or unlikely. Give them names that are a...

TO DO (in order of importance) Pull oneself together Accept the fact that it's going to be 41 degrees today and suck it up; everybody...