Even With Nothing, There’s Something.

I’m a minimalist. Steve Minonimalist. I’m addicted to discarding things I no longer like or need and I only feel Continue reading →

Family Land Mine

Whenever I see him, I always ask my friend how his family is and I look forward to his answer Continue reading →

I’d Rather Go Blind

So you’re single again. Your last on-again-off-again relationship, that exhausting emotional marathon has only recently ended with you limping across Continue reading →

Somebody’s Song I Used to Know

The stellar success of Gotye’s Somebody that I Used to Know somehow irks me. I know I should be getting Continue reading →

Margaret Olley is not my Mum

(Republished on mamamia.com.au 29.5.2012) I was admiring Ben Quilty’s etchings of artist Margaret Olley, the sketches he did when he was Continue reading →

Somebody to Love Me

  – Mark Ronson & The Business INTL. featuring Boy George.  A while back I was sitting with a friend Continue reading →

Someone Else’s Summer

I spent my last Australian summer in paralysis. Not the physical kind. Social paralysis. The condition you’re left with after Continue reading →