Suitcase in hand and a shipping container to follow, I set foot in Townsville for the first time on 19 June 2015. It was dark when I arrived. I didn’t know what my new home looked like until the morning. A few weeks earlier I’d signed a contract to move across the country to a … [Read more…]
I used to consider myself a writer. It was a part of my identity. I always wrote things when I was younger. Poems. Stories. The Next Best-Selling Young Adult Novel. For a while it turned to letters. Elaborate letters home when I was living abroad. Whatever it was, I was always writing. I went to … [Read more…]
I’d stopped reading. I loved it, but I’d stopped. Somewhere between 2010 and 2015 I became a lapsed reader. And I was most definitely a lapsed reader by 2017. Which is why I took up the JCU Library Reading Challenge in 2018. And it’s thanks to that reading challenge I got reading again. I didn’t … [Read more…]