Stories

May 15, 2010 - Bad-time stories

‘Bad-time Stories’ article  by Phillip Adams ,  (The Weekend Australian Magazine March 13-14, 2010)

“Remember the once-upon-a-time time?  When children were scared by fairy stories about giants and beanstalks and old crones with gingerbread cottages?  The macabre Punch and Judy have long since given way to cinema and television and “childhood innocence” is an oxymoron.  Thanks to screens big and little, kids are bombarded with brutal images pretty much as soon as they leave the labour ward.   And marketers are well on the way to sexualising children before they start kindergarten.

April 27, 2010 - Army of Ink Poor Chook

Poor chook.

(Reposted from 2010.  Now in Clunk & Jam book, 2019)

April 12, 2010 - Army of Ink Room For Us

Sometimes things don’t go the way I want them to, particularly when I forget to make room for us, not just me – us.

April 1, 2010 - Army of ink Rabbits on Sunday

Don’t Go Out Into The Woods On Sunday.

March 28, 2010 - Queen Bully

Did you know Helena Bonham Carter’s Mum is a Psychotherapist?  And shares her Mother’s sympathetic view of bullies saying … “Everybody has a heart and some people’s hearts have just been really damaged and they’ve forgotten how to love or feel lovable.   Anybody that tiny inside needs to make themselves feel bigger, so they put people down.”

Quote from Weekend Australian Newspaper Review 27-28 March.

March 18, 2010 - Army of Ink Brave Tears

Brave Goodbye Tears .