A reflection on my latest song, “The Champion’s Code,” inspired by Scott Fox and the extraordinary humans at Fitness Habitat SA. There’s something profoundly counterintuitive about voluntarily getting up at 5:09am to have someone systematically break you down. Yet three…
A reflection on my latest song, “I Taught Her How To Drive Away,” written for my daughter AJ’s 17th birthday Here’s something they don’t tell you about parenting: every skill you teach your child is actually a lesson in letting…
A letter to my daughters about the scripts we inherit and the ones we can choose to rewrite. The Book That Changed Everything Reading “It Didn’t Start With You” hit like a revelation wrapped in scientific validation. The research shows…
When political power meets sitcom absurdity The Perfect Character Combination Sometimes reality writes better comedy than fiction ever could. Watching the very public spat between Donald Trump and Elon Musk unfold across social media, I couldn’t help but think: this…
A lament for the courage we’re outsourcing to algorithms The Moment of Fear That Started Everything My AI tools went down recently. Not for long, just enough to make me realise how much of my workflow had quietly migrated to…
A lament for presence in the age of distraction The Sacred Space We’ve Surrendered This song emerged from complete revulsion. Not the polite kind of disapproval you express at dinner parties, but the visceral, bone-deep disgust that hits when you…
When a horse asks who’s really trapped The Unexpected Philosophy Lesson I’ve never been an animal person. Admired them from a polite distance, sure, but the whole human-animal bond thing seemed like emotional territory better left to people who actually…
Baz Luhrmann has triumphed again with some fast-paced, layered cinema, delving into the behind-the-scenes story of the Elvis phenomenon and in doing so has created an allegorical tale that sheds light on Trump and US politics. Elvis, the movie, focusses…
In the heat of battle against Covid-19 on Thursday night, my tired mind likened Covid to a Russia virus, most likely because my thoughts have been saturated by concern for Ukrainians in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s illegal and brutal…
I have dabbled with mindfulness meditation a few times over the years but my latest adventure is showing signs of great promise, with Sam Harris as my guide. These few paragraphs are being writting to mark an awakening moment I…