This week's story is inspired by my toddler Lucy's obsession with unicorns. Now, it may be a chicken or the egg situation but what seemed shortly after Lucy demanding more unicorns in her life with [...]
Socrates said "an unexamined life isn't worth living" and Robert McKee, who's taught many a budding screenwriter how to make an emotional impact, paraphrased "an unlived life isn't worth examining". Both men make a good [...]
If you do any sort of creative work I'm sure you stop and ask yourself why you bother. No one asks us to create anything new. In fact, more often than not, artists get in [...]
Sick days are when the real work gets done. This is what I discovered when a cold and flu double-hitter knocked me out literally. Oh, and I needed to be knocked out. It was my [...]
When I came up with the idea for this article, I had no idea that July 17th was World Emoji Day. Odd coincidence or had the marketing messages made their way into my subconscious? It's [...]
Something interesting happened while doing a video to spruik my blog posts. I called myself an "artist". I'm sure the people who've seen it scratched their heads. As a writer, parent and an ordinary person [...]
Next time someone harasses you or makes unreasonable demands on your time, tell them to "go love yourself!". The importance of self-love came up when we were baptising our youngest. The priest turned to us, [...]
As I found out the worst form of torture one can experience is too little night sleep. Your creativity goes out the window for starters. Why am I subjecting myself to something so terrible? you [...]
