My partner Wilson has one of the creepiest jobs in the world. He’s a cleaner for a biohazard remediation company. Basically what he does is crime scene clean up. It sounds like a very obscure job but is actually quite vital. Wilson has cleaned up scenes such as a shoot-out and double homicide, an industrial […]
Month: February 2016
Fear of the Ice
My psychiatrist says I just have to face my issues…makes sense, because if I don’t I’m out of a job. My entire career is built out of teaching people how to ice skate, so you’d think that would come easily for me. And it did, for my whole life! I was born in Canada, Banff […]
Judgement for skating
One of the hardest things about being a mother is, and I hate to say this, the judgement. Now, when I say that, I don’t mean that my kid is judging everything I do or that I judge other children, it’s that other mothers judge me and how I treat my kid. I realise that, […]
My love of giving gifts
When it comes around to birthdays, most people express dislike of having to buy gifts. I think most people feel inconvenienced by having to get a gift, and they worry that they won’t be able to choose something that the other person likes. There’s a lot of pressure, I can understand that, but I tend […]
My experience in a real life Tardis
There are some places where the make-believe infiltrates the real, where the line between fantasy and reality is blurred. None but the child’s supple mind can unearth these secret places as for adults, time and age have atrophied the sense which perceives the preternatural. Those of us who have been luck enough to stumble upon […]
My garden is a graveyard
Recently we had to do a massive clean up of our property in Melbourne. It’s not that we’re hoarders or anything but there was a lot of junk around and the garden hadn’t been tended to in years. I guess you could say that my wife and I are workaholics. We would have loved to […]
The Next Video Game Sensation
It is I, Marius! Ah, how well we know those iconic words. In fact, my very first video game ever was Ultra Marius Bro and Sis for the original handheld systems, and even though it was all sidescrolling nonsense without all that much of a plot, I really felt like I bonded with the characters. […]
Our weekend drive to the country
My kids are city slickers. It’s my fault for not taking them out into nature more often. The fresh country air is supposed to be good for you but all they’ve known is the smell of the city. Don’t get me wrong, I always spoil them with trips to the roller skating rink or the […]
Bring back that good old fashioned quality
They don’t make anything like they used to. You used to be able to walk down to the local milk bar and get the best hard candy – you could break your teeth on those things! That’s what I call quality. These days all the sweets and lollies they make cost twice as much and […]
Tough guy in disguise
They say you should never judge a book by its cover but come on, let’s face it, with most people what you see is what you get. Take me for instance, I’m as big as a house and tough as nails. And it doesn’t take much to prove it. Recently me and the missus had […]