I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.

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.

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.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.

Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time. Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.