‘Wait, wait, wait,’ I said, throwing my hands up as David began to walk down the hallway with his suitcase. ‘Problem?’ he asked me, raising an eyebrow. ‘Yes, there’s a problem,’ I scowled. ‘Beginning with why my adult son, who has a wife and child has decided he’s moving back in with me!’ …
“You know, somebody like this Gideon guy would have been really handy back in the surface days,” said Redman, once they’d managed to escape the crazy Lorenzo. As they’d hoped, the guard dog had stopped chasing them once they left the Mornington Peninsula. “What do you mean?” asked Jesse. Redman drove with one hand on …
‘Timmy, get ready please,’ I said in a well-practised tone. ‘We’re going to be late for school.’ ‘I am ready!’ he insisted from the kitchen table, head glued to a tablet. ‘Oh, really?’ I put my hands on my hips. ‘I would have thought your feet would be cold, heading out without any …
I told mum! I told her. I told her. I TOLD HER. I told her that this would happen if she kept being so clumsy and just throwing her body anywhere and any time. Last night she was walking with my dad to a dinner function for our favourite sporting team (I wasn’t invited) and …
It’s been one week since I put my son into care. I cried my eyes out when I left him. I truly felt like I was abandoning him and like I have failed as a mother. I didn’t want this to happen. I didn’t ask to have a son who is going to suffer from …
Why is doing nothing all day so tiring? I’ve been lying outside for the last four hours and I keep falling asleep in the sun. It’s a great feeling, but truly, I’m exhausted. I don’t usually fall asleep during the day so it’s saying a lot that I have done so multiple times now. It’s …
My colleague who I have worked with for several years now noticed that I was in pain in the break room the other day. I saw her looking at me as if to decide whether or not to broach a topic with me. I was obviously curious and wanted to get to the bottom of …
I’m in an angry mood. I’m angry at my local basketball stadium because of a drama that happened at the stadium last week. I didn’t even play and I’m being dragged into it because I’m the team manager! As if I don’t have enough on my plate at the moment? I’m trying to work in …
Once upon a time, I lived the worst lifestyle possible when it came to health. I didn’t do anything bad like smoke or drink excessively, but I absolutely loved all things with sugar. Every day I was scooping six spoons of sugar into my coffee, eating cakes, and bags of lollies. I had the biggest …
The next time I tried to drive to the suburb next to Raceview, the exact same thing happened to my car. It broke down unexpectedly and for absolutely no reason. I remembered that when my mechanic pushed my car back a few metres it started working again, so I did that too. Unsurprisingly, my car …