I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.

The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.