OPEN YOUR GOB!

Sometime last week I was walking along the canal when a young boy and his friend, no older than 13, lobbed an empty coke can into the canal. Now, my normal reaction to this kind of behaviour is to tut, shake my head and continue to mind my own business. However, this time I stopped [...]

Feels.

It feels as though I never left. The last two years feel like a dream, I feel as though I’ve been asleep. Some days I don’t want to close my eyes, I want to live in my reality and some days… I can’t wait to fall back into my dreams. I want to be here [...]

With love, Australia

I'm in a place where the sun shines even when it rains... I'm in a place where a mob of kangaroos passing my window at dusk will never, never be normal... A place where being alone brings as much happiness as when surrounded by laughter... Where fear no longer controls me and I have no [...]

If you could choose your race/nationality what would it be and why?

So, I had to write this for someones new book and loved doing it so much that I thought I'd post it and ask everyone else the same question... Start with your race/nationality then... If you could choose your nationality/ race, what would you choose and why? You won't be judged. I am a 23-year old Black [...]

Wet t-shirts & white jeans

"She did the splits, in white jeans and a bloody black thong." Wet Wednesdays at Scary Canaries, Sydneys backpackers finest. Once upon a time, when I was very very intoxicated and very much so, still caught up in the year of YES, I said YES to taking part in the wet t-shirt competition at Scary Canaries... To [...]

It’s just Eczema.

...If you have eczema read my experience 🙂 ...If you don't, read anyway and learn about how it affects people differently, in my case it made me a little cray. To everyone who said my skin looks, disgusting, weird, ugly and every other 'compliment' I received. Thank you. Thank you because you made me realise how ignorant [...]