Last night I had my third painting class, which I’m enjoying immensely. In the first two classes, we just worked on colour charts: mixing paints, creating a tonal scheme, understanding how to match different colours for different effects. It felt a bit pointless at first, painting box after box of different colours, but I can [...]

Good news this month: I managed to land three freelance writing jobs in the last few weeks. My first ones! Hooray!
The downside, though, is that it means I’ve unwittingly started doing the ‘working from home’ thing before figuring out what that actually means. We don’t have a study and the Mac is situated in our [...]

A friend of mine put me on to booko recently. It’s an Australian site which surfs the web and finds you the cheapest online prices for books. Plenty of Moore College set texts are available. Interestingly, Amazon is not often at the top of the list.

My favourite thing about a rainy day is how it makes lazing around and doing nothing seem like perfectly legitimate behaviour.
If the weather is warm, I always feel like I’m somehow wasting all that sunshine and being a spoil sport if I sit at home in my pyjamas, watching TV show reruns while eating mini [...]

Parenting can seem like a matter of formulas to the inexperienced. Raise a child a certain way, teach them good values and ta-da! A healthy and well adjusted adult eighteen years later. As our baby’s due date draws closer, I can’t help but dream of how we’re going to raise him to be the kind [...]

Breakfast was a hurried affair when I had a full-time job – a piece of toast or bowl of cereal, coffee then straight out the door. Since I’ve stopped working, I’ve enjoyed taking my time in the mornings and breakfast is now my favourite meal of the day.
In honour of this often undervalued meal, I [...]