“Let The Gin Work Its Magic” came out of me one evening over a glass of Never Never Distilling Co’s Juniper Freak Gin, courtesy of interviewing their Sean Baxter for The Adelaide Show podcast. I also discovered Navy Strength gin…

On Saturday night at my local pub, I noticed that everyone in the room was performing something. At one table, a group of fifty-somethings were deep in serious conversation. Every so often a laugh went on a bit too long…

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…

I wrote this song for my daughter, AJ’s, 17th birthday. She’s learning to drive. Not the toy car circuits around the lounge room, or the wobbly first laps on her bike down our street. Real driving, with real consequences, and…

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…

My AI tools went down recently. Not for long, just enough to make me realise how much of my workflow had quietly migrated to algorithmic assistance. That moment of mild panic sparked this song, a lament for the courage we’re…

This song came from revulsion. We’re addicted to dopamine crumbs from junk likes and reactions. We can’t bear alone time anymore, that sacred space where new ideas take root. We’re heading toward a world of average, and most of us…

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…