Adam Is What I Give

If you'd like to read my debut co-authored novel, Postmarked Piper's Reach, you can jump here: postmarkedpipersreach.wordpr… and catch up. It's an epistolary novel so treat it like a web serial. The final season is going live now and will finish in March 2025.

I'm hosting one of the Living Stories creative writing workshops this year! It's free to attend, but your RSVP is essential. For Adults Tuesday 31 March 6pm-7.30pm Penrith Library You can book your ticket via this link: eventbrite.com.au/e/living-s… Hope to see you there!

Safe to say I'm entering my villain origin story era. This little hen is Freckles, and together, WE WILL CONQUER... ...the backyard for the moment. I mean, you can't take over Greenland until you've destabilised a number of Latin American or Middle Eastern regimes, can you?

For my US comrades who would like a new chant to sing at ICE officials, can I suggest this unofficial Australian anthem. It is a classic call and response tune CALL: Am I ever gonna see your face again? RESPONSE: NO WAY, GET FUCKED, FUCK OFF! For example: youtube.com/watch?v=6jLoxp8E…

Reverse of the Hibiscus Felt pen and coloured pencil on A5 📸 Reference @em__lily_ #TheDrumAndPage #ContinuousLineDrawing #SingleLineDrawing #StaedtlerPens #ArtlinePens #JasartColouredPencils

Yes, it's a heatwave down the east coast of Australia. Yes, it sucks. Yes, I'm gonna whinge about it. Yes, I'm gonna turn it into a little piece of writing whimsy. Yes, you're gonna like it.

January 6 Epiphany My words for the year: Supplication * a place for vision * a posture to hold Tend * to self * to others Release * the old habits, goals, dreams * the doubt and fear * new visions and hopes #TheDrumAndPage

With the expected descending of Satan's buttcrack across Sydney for the next four days of stupid heat, I should buy out all the Zooper Doopers I can fit in the freezer and stand at intersections selling them for a dollar a pop when the lights change. #SydneyHeatwave

I can no more make a flower grow than to ask the wind to change direction in its miraculous nature and the brevity of passing days I will enjoy the moment #TheDrumAndPage #Orchids #GardeningNeglectIsMySuperPower

I am in the midst of planning a new WIP and there's a small detail I am trying to find an answer for. It is not essential to the narrative arc but is it essential for continuity and verisimilitude in the narrative. Just like following international law.

Let me speak words of encouragement in these dark times so that light will guide the way for truth. #TheDrumAndPage

You get wise. You get to church. First Sunday service of the year. #TheDrumAndPage

I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death...

When in doubt, volunteer. First #ParkRun volly duties.

Made a couple of new friends today.

Our family, well, more specifically Miss #2, are now wranglers of a small flock of miniature egg-laying dinosaurs. Nomenclature yet to be bestowed.

This year may you have the strength to fight the battles you face, have a firm anchor to withstand the storms you encounter, keep faith in the darkness when it threatens to overwhelm, find joy in the daily mundane moments, keep loving as an act of revolution and rebellion Peace

To every muso, sound/lighting crew, tech, merch, catering crew, fast food workers, waitstaff, chefs and dishwashers, emergency services and nurses and doctors, public transport staff: I hope you get to see the best of humanity this evening, and not its worst.

Today is a great day to say, "I am quitting X/Y/Z until the end of the year."

I want to see the miraculous in the mundane the extraordinary in the ennui the magnificence in the minutiae See you all next year some time. #TheDrumAndPage