Archive for October, 2007

How to KEEP an imaginary friend

It is quite easy to MAKE an imaginary friend. You can make them wacky and interesting and funny, but there is no point unless you are going to have an ongoing Relationship with them. And this is the part most people, including myself, struggle with. An imaginary friend is like a plant, it [...]

Eat Life Slowly

Many people don’t know how to EAT a banana. They just chomp it down and its gone in seconds. They barely even taste it and then it’s as if the banana never existed. This is how you are suppost to eat a banana:
PLACE the banana on the lawn and pretend to forget where it [...]

The Flying Island

I’ve promised myself I will finish writing Jac and the Wild Children before i continue with my next novel. But it is so much easier to do the imagining than the writing. And i have imagined out Jac and have nothing left but to write him down. But i will tell you about my next [...]

how to MAKE an imaginary friend

Everybody wants an imaginary friend. Why? LOTS of reasons. They are the perfect companion, they don’t say things that annoy, they are always understanding and faithful. They love you unconditionally, if only because they rely on you to sustain their existence. They are exercise for you imagination, which is the most important muscle in the [...]

“WOW” moments.

You know when you have these moments when you just look at the world and its like “wow”. Thats not very articulate of me, let me explain.
If you say a word over and over again it looses all meaning. Taste, Taste, taste, taste, taste, taste. Its like you are a foreigner, looking at your own [...]

I am home, and what an adventure.

This week has been/is a many splendid thing. It was my first day back at uni. It was the week i house/dog sat for friends and it is the last week my sister will have the name Rodgers. (SHE’S GETTING MARRIED TOMORROW!!!)
I have some notes in case any of you have to look after sombody [...]

The number 56

I saw a stranger with the number 56 tattooed on their arm. It made me think. Why would somebody tattoo that on their arm? How is it significant to them? Here are some possibilities I think I will put in ‘This is not a book’.
On the 3rd day after my father died I was sitting [...]