My Parents My Chauffeurs I’m sure everyone remembers their parents driving them around when they were little and fighting for the front seat and having to ask for lift to a party, school, work, etc. My childhood was no different. In my life my parents have owned two cars, a Holden station wagon and a Holden Commodore. They still own
Read moreMy mother My Nurse Some of the worst memories of my childhood revolve around illnesses—chicken pox, tonsillitis, sinusitis, colds and flus. I would feel sick, weak and vulnerable with every illness I would contract or develop. However what would soften these bad memories would be the good memories of my mother stepping in as my nurse and looking after me.
Read moreHome Cooked Meals I once jokingly told my brother, Nathan that the reason why it’s easy for me to save money on youth allowance is because I don’t socialise and I eat the same things over and over again. It’s true, when I’m at uni and away from my family, I tend to eat meals on rotation, especially dinner. With
Read morePocket Money When I was seventeen years old, I got my first regular casual job at Woolworths. I worked as a service cashier or “check out chick” after school, on weekends and during the holidays. I got the job because I wanted financial independence and felt I was too old to be getting pocket money off my parents. Six years
Read moreIgnorance is bliss (and other things I miss since becoming a grown up) There are many things I miss since becoming a grown up, over the next eight columns, I will chronicle eight specific things I miss and why I miss them. The first thing I will write about that I miss since becoming a grown up would easily be
Read moreMy ABC Open Stories were stories I wrote for and were published on ABC Open, a platform for community-led regional and rural stories. ABC Open was established in 2010 and my stories were published in 2013. The ABC Open site closed in 2019, being replaced with ABC My Photo, an audience-generated photography site to provide an easier and more integrated
Read moreMY TYRES ARE FINE I JUST DON’T KNOW WHERE I’M GOING Compared to some of the other Travel Tales I have read, mine might seem insignificant or boring, but for me this particular Tale isn’t. My Travel Tale is the first time I drove out of town by myself. I was travelling from my home town of Wagga Wagga to
Read moreMY MOTHER MY NURSE (AND BRIEFLY MY PATIENT) My wonderful mother, Jennifer has nursed me through many illnesses: colds, flus, infections, 24-hour bugs and has also kissed many wounds to make them better throughout my childhood. Even though I’m 23 now, she still is my nurse on some occasions, the most recent being when I had my foot operated on
Read moreA PROUD APPLE ON THE TREE This might sound clichè and it’s going to be the most obvious choice, but I can’t deny them, there are two people, the two most important people in my life who have shaped me—my parents: Michael and Jennifer. Nearly everyone would say that their parents shaped them, but it’s true for me, without them
Read moreTHE LIMPY DIARIES Surgery—minor or major can be scary. In my so far twenty-two years of life, I’ve only had one. But what I found scary was not the surgery itself, but what happened afterwards. For two years I had been experiencing on-and-off pain, limited movement and swelling around my right ankle. I went to GPs and my podiatrist several
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