When was the last time you prioritiesd your own wellbeing? All too often, we become so preoccupied with various tasks, thoughts, and feelings that we forget to check if our …
Love, Lessons, And Legacies
It’s time to do the mandatory lovey-dovey post in honour of Valentine’s Day, previously known as my-least-favourite-holiday-that-isn’t-even-a holiday-because-we-don’t get-the-day-off. Around this time, some years ago, I very briefly, dated a …
Anxiety: The Demon On My Back
Not all monsters live in the closet It feels fitting to write this in January when we’re supposed to be hopeful and making promises to ourselves about the life we …
Happily Never After
Does becoming an adult mean losing the will to dream? Life is full of jokes. Not the ‘ahhahaha haha hahaha HAHAHAHA’ type but the: it’s raining outside and you have …
Boys On Bikes and 1970’s Black Dracula: Part 2
As I stood there thinking of what to say, literally dripping in sweat, I was surprised to hear myself yell, “NO THANKS!” I said no a bunch more times then …
Boys on Bikes and 1970’s Black Dracula
When I was 12-years-old I fell in love with Sam Smith. Not the singer, no sorry, a different Sam Smith. It’s a very common name, okay, which is why I …
Is WhatsApp Keeping Us Out Of Touch?
So you can now read my unsolicited opinions on Huffington Post, eyyyy! Here’s a sneaky peak of the article…
ARTIST’S CORNER: DEAN COOTS -COMIC ARTIST
“Sorry if you came to this website looking for information about the American horror novelist Dean Koontz. I’m not him. Coincidentally, I am a writer but a different kind of …
Practice Sketch (Biro)
Practice, practice, practice. Although my mum is an artist, I couldn’t draw the simplest of things, so even though I had the urge to, I didn’t bother trying, believing that I simply couldn’t.
Last year I started to draw stick figures for a laugh, but as the year got, well, increasingly awful, I found myself drawing as a way of silencing some of the brain noise. It was therapeutic, and putting time aside to improve on something new for myself was satisfying. Continue reading “Practice Sketch (Biro)”
ARTIST’S CORNER: MILAN FINNIE
Pyrographe I was standing in the queue for the Greyhound Bus in San Diego, screaming internally because I completely misread the information on my ticket, and had arrived a smooth hour …