I bought a lottery ticket today – always a reliable barometer of personal despair and desperation.

J’s Diary Entry 8 January 2003 Spent a leisurely morning reading my Nicola Barker novel in the lounge room until The Turkey showed up and I was forced out the door, on the run from his banal anecdotes and body stench (I swear he has shit in his pants today). Went in search of fabric for a wall hanging I want to make. Tried all … Continue reading I bought a lottery ticket today – always a reliable barometer of personal despair and desperation.

All dreams are weird, that’s why they’re dreams.

  From: ‘S’ Date: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:37AM To: ‘J’ Subject: Did you get my pictures of jewellery for Nana? S   From: ‘J’ Date: 04 April 2002 12:10AM To: ‘S’ Subject: Yep – when you gonna send me the money?  And stop calling mum Nana, it’s weird, like when husbands and wives call each other Mummy and Daddy cos they’ve got a kid … Continue reading All dreams are weird, that’s why they’re dreams.

An Aside from S – On this day 21 years ago!

Currently in the Blog my daughter Brady the “baby girl with no name” is only three months old but today (10/6/16) she turns 21. Brady is an amazing person, she is smart, she is funny, she is sassy.  She has a work ethic like no other 21 year old I know, she is the first to say she has the first dollar she ever earnt … Continue reading An Aside from S – On this day 21 years ago!