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Won't You Come Home, Bill Barrie?
My father, William Barrie. He was eighteen years old in this photo, taken in 1955 just when he'd joined the army. I only found this out the other week, worked out the dates and age on my calculator. He...
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You Can See Half The Moon.
That's what Rocco said to me the other night: "Mum check it, you can see half the moon!"It reminded me of something but I couldn't quite place it .... then I placed it. He said something very similar...
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My Brother Cam Killed Himself And I Don't Write About It Much Anymore Because...
Uploading that photo of him (above) just then was uggghhhh. Rare these days that I ruminate on the utter shittery annihilation of his suicide but every once in a while it hits me like I hit the wall...
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Some Thinks I Thought When I Was A Kid.
Swallowed an orange seed in kindy and cried so hard because I thought an orange tree would mminently grow from my belly up out of mouth. The teacher could not calm me down.I thought the amount of...
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My Blog Might Get Deleted Because I'm Writing About Medicinal Cannabis.
My cousin Morgan is the one in the wheelchair:Behind her from left is her sister Ariel, their dad Steve, and lawyer Robert Daoud from Sydney Criminal Defence Lawyers.They're outside Penrith Courthouse...
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Street Talk: The Icehead And Beau.
I broke up a fight in Katoomba Street because I'm a tough cunt but let me backtrack and tell you the story.So I was in the waiting room waiting to see my new GP who is actually quite fucking awesome...
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.. So Then God Spaketh: "Let's give the poor bitch bipolar too!"
There's a bipolar tree in my backyard. She goes ok. Recently she turned a deep crimson red and didn't really know why, she chalked it up to embarrassment at being so different from the other trees. It...
View ArticleThe World is Desperately Hurting, Traumatised and Fucked Up.
We need our artists - it’s an emergency. We need the kind of people who always save the world right in the nick of time, by giving us hope.We need our painters and writers and sculptors. Knitters and...
View Article“Have a great day boys and remember: don’t rape any women!”
On the weekend my ten-year old son and I were walking down the street and I noticed him glaring and looking back at a man who’d walked past us.“What’s up mate?”“That guy was PERVING AT YOU.”He said it...
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I Accidentally Sold My Favourite Cowboy Boots For $33.
I listed a pair of my cowboy boots up for sale on a facebook group for $40 but I meant to put $140. Didn't realise my error until I was inundated, swarmed with YES PLS! SOLD! I CAN COME TO YOU RIGHT...
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Still Not Dead.
There's my brother Cam.In the morgue. I took a photo.He's still beautiful. Please try not spin out!In the olden days people used to take photos of their deceased loved ones all the time. I cropped it...
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His First Camp, My Last Camp.
My youngest set off to camp yesterday!We packed literally at the eleventh hour the night before (well, I did.) He crashed out legs askew on the couch after two episodes of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, the...
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You Could Always Touch A Stranger But Not In A Creepy Way
I don't have anything to write about because what I've truthfully got to write about is too much, too dark and too scary. Even for me. I'm scared. Just really really scared, even with my emergency...
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Richer Than We Think.
There's millions more good souls than bad souls in the world, the bad ones just tend to get all the press. Apparently the planet is going through huge turmoil but hasn't it always? One thing is true -...
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Carrie Fisher: Our Beloved Patron Saint of Bipolar (and Just General Mental...
One of the best things I have ever read is Carrie Fisher saying this in one of her memoirs called "Wishful Drinking."“I thought I would inaugurate a Bipolar Pride Day. You know, with floats and parades...
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Laughter, and Other Medicines.
Hey when I was a kid I used to get chocolate eclairs from the bakery ... sometimes I'd mix it up because I do like a baked good but often I'd walk up to the counter and say:"Hello, may I please have a...
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If All The Lonely People Came Together Then We Wouldn't Be Lonely Anymore...
Ever realised how SO uncool to admit how lonely you are? I'm lonely! And yes I'm embarrassed at being lonely but it's the truth.If I ever ask someone if they get lonely they say no .. why is that? Is...
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A Bad Case Of Toska
To get straight to it: I have never received so much hate emails, bile and backlash in my life. The shame I feel is so overwhelming I thought seriously about deleting this whole site and all of my...
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