Tonight I’m in the mood for a bit of magic and travel…and these Persian rugs seemed like the perfect place to start…So where do you want to go? …Enjoy your ride

image sources 1 & 2 -via google images

Been thinking about trying to make and submit a last minute entry for Pangea Day focused on bringing dialogue about Earth, what we are doing to it, and raising awareness for how everything is interconnected…the challenge for me is balancing the positive and negative - and also getting it done in time…
Meanwhile,here is a perfect [...]

This being human is a guest house

Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest [...]

Crop of The Spinner by Billy Houdek, painting of a woman who talks too much while in the act of retelling a story. Source
The Hectare Lesson I recall years ago reading a scene in a book that has stayed with me since. I was about 11 and I think it was in one of Roald Dahl’s bio-works e.g. [...]

"The world of two. Now one" - Natalie Shell
More in storyworld - above is my first play with nanotales - 6 line stories and so forth. Certainly it isn’t Hemingway’s:
"Baby Shoes. For Sale. Never Worn" 
 But it is fun to practice and I thought it was a good entry into this article on Nanotales in The [...]

 
You are never too old for Dr. Seuss! So I thought I would share this one - my favourite …
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know [...]

Once upon a time, when I lived in Australia, I began to write some children’s books - for ages 5-8….and those who read with them. The first that came out (a good 3years ago) was "A Message To Send"*
You can keep reading on for more about the story, and the backstory 
OR if you simply can’t wait, you [...]

Nothing new - again. This post is about reminding myself/us what we, and the ancient humans, already knew/know - visuals are KEY!

I have been musing on using visuals to explain my work - hand drawn, digital, photos, comic…whatever. In part because visuals tell stories that skip to our right brain - safely sidestepping away from the [...]

"With age, some games turn serious" - image below and quote (c) Raph Koster, from A Theory of Fun
Quite a while ago, friend and colleague, Colby, alerted me to the importance of ‘gamers’, creaters/designers/players of online games, and their future role in society "they’ll be the future CEO’s" and they will understand what you are talking [...]

"Isn’t it amazing that all these cities can exist at the same time"?
Andrea musing on how there are all these amazing cities in the world…
then followed by a comment on the world - we could create whatever we wanted and this is how we built it???
(this is from months ago but just TOO good not to [...]