I have been struggling to get paid for my work of late. Although I have willingly volunteered as journalist for a local news outlet and have a lot of writing experience. I am starting to feel the pressures of acquiring paid work. I am currently working a chef job in my home town and it…
I had my first cigarette when I was thirteen years old and it blew my head off. I was skipping school on a sunny afternoon with three of my friends. We climbed to the top of one of the grassy hills in my home town that overlooked what was my entire world. I was politely…
Last week I posted a blog regarding my journey into the magical world of Dungeon and Dragons, how I found myself enticed into these imaginary realms of monsters and treasures and how this game changed me for the better. This blog however, is going to be a more step by step, a how to guide…
Travelling through South America has been one of the highlights of my life thus far. A happy accident that was never planned more than a couple weeks in advance. Although it has been on my lists to do, South America wasn’t high on my travel rankings. It was when I was nearing the end of…
I have been playing Dungeons and Dragons for the best part of 10 years now. Although the first couple of years were spend deciphering the DnD (A abbreviation of ‘Dungeons and Dragons) official books like the crusty old parchment from a ancient scroll only to come up with my own rules, loosely based on what…
Unfortunately the majority of my photographs taken in Nepal are lost to the digital winds of time, and the ones I do possess are printed and neatly placed in my photo album. So although the memories are as vivid as ever, the physical reminders of my time in this extraordinary country has mostly vanished. Although…
Spoilers obviously…. “Dad, wanna go see Dune?” I asked in the early hours of Monday morning. “What’s Dune?” He replied, with seemingly little interest. “You know, the SyFy movie about sand worms. The second one is out now”. That’s how my morning started out, little did I know, I was about to wittiness one of…
I was listening to a podcast by The Ancients the other day while at work scrubbing floors and changing beds. The podcast episode was about ancient dogs, specifically about how we came to domesticate dogs, what they were used for and how they were treated (I highly recommend listening in to the podcast). A passage…