Early this morning I opened the front door and threw the dregs of my coffee across the front lawn. The air was still cold; darkness seemed to be hesitating before slipping off its cloak and scuttling towards the horizon. A full moon sat staring at me low in the sky as if it too were [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 18, 2008
To a game
I didn’t know my neighbours well so I was kind of surprised when they offered to give me a lift to the garage where my car was waiting to be picked up. This was on a Saturday morning and they could do it after dropping their son off at his hockey game. I climbed in [...]
May 10, 2008
Looking for the sound of bells
When I was 24 I went to Europe for the first time with a friend that I lived and worked with up North. Mazz and I landed in Amsterdam; he was keen to catch up with a girl he’d met in Bali the year before. This was just before Christmas and we left the Australian [...]
May 2, 2008
The feet of dead people
About five years ago I was staying at this bad hotel on the edge of Denver. It was a cheap hotel so I should have expected it to be bad. Like my father says, “You always get what you pay for” which is true except, when it comes to hotels, I think the benchmark should [...]
