• Jane

    My friend Jane is so marvelous that I kind of am in awe of her.  She rocks a red lip, Marc Jacob flats and beautiful tattoos like no one else. Truly! But her lovely physical attributes aside, it is Jane’s extraordinary heart and talents that I really admire. Jane plies her trade as a professional [...]

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    Matty

    Of all the people I know, the greatest metamorphosis I have witnessed in one of my friends is the changes in my friend Matty. Years ago, Matty was the party guy.  You know the guy – the guy that was wild, rambunctious and so extraordinarily spontaneous that you could never tell if you would get [...]

  • Peta

        Everyone deserves a best friend like Peta.  And evidently it seems that my karma is clear as I lucked up with Peta being mine. It is quite normal to speak highly of your best friend but in the case of my Peta, words will never do justice to what an incredible person she [...]

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    Elmo

    Oh Elmo!  My lovely friend Elmo with her popular culture obsessions to rival the greatest of tabloids.  If you need to know a thing or two about KISS, U2 or Bono, Law and Order (the Vincent D’Onofrio one), internet cats or Elton John then Elmo is your girl to ask. About 8 years ago I [...]

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    Jo

    I was trying to pin the exact moment in time that I met Jo and I am afraid that I can’t.  I do know that we have moved in the same circles for well over a decade and share many mutual friends. Jo is a music journalist, a musician, a sometimes radio broadcaster and rock [...]

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    Kristy

    Kristy is a fabulous writer.  She is also a very fine dancer. She is a rock and roll spunk. I met Kristy a few years back and while I don’t know her very well, I have always found her to be great fun and very kind. I’ve been at a few great parties with Kristy [...]

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    Shane

    This is  Shane.  Shane is my partner of nearly 9 years.  He is the father of my child.  Simply put, he is a truly wonderful man. Shane is an incredibly gifted and unique writer. His imagination continually surprises me and his work ethic astounds me. Shane is a writer who has no choice but to [...]

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    Jane and Clare

    If I could afford to hire a sassy project manager to whip my life into shape with out fuss but with a great deal of humility and humour, I’d give my friend Jane a call. Jane is one of those people that is simply on top of everything.  She has always been the friend that [...]

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    Lucy

    For reasons relating to her profession, I am unable to show you my friend Lucy’s face.  Which is a shame really given that she is quite the magnificent and exotic beauty. But that said, Lucy is more than just a beautiful face.  I met Lucy about 9 years ago through my partner Shane and I’ve [...]

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    Michael

    Every girl needs a gay best friend and Michael is mine. I met Michael when I was nineteen years old when we worked together in a hotel in the city.  I was working as a waitress and Michael was the manager of the front office.  Across shiny marble floors and plush surrounds, we developed a [...]

My Mates

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Pete and Des

Pete and Des both have fabulous laughs.  The kind of laughter that makes you laugh along with them – contagious, intoxicating. They are extraordinarily fun and joyous to be with which makes them very popular men indeed. I’ve know Pete and Des for about 16 years where we met through a mutual friend. I fell [...]

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Michaela

Michaela is one cool lady.  She is an accomplished author and is also one of the curators and host of the immensely popular Women of Letters literary events.  I first met Michaela at the inaugural Women of Letters event in early 2010 which I was there to photograph.  She is extraordinary tall and physically striking [...]

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Ronnie

Ronnie is a boy genius.  He is a highly accomplished writer and editor, as well as the founder of the fabulously smart and fun The Lifted Brow. Ronnie is the flat mate of a very dear friend of mine and when she hosted a dinner party this year, and after he consumed a few glasses [...]

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Tania

I was practicing and studying at a Buddhist meditation centre in Hawthorn in 2010 when I met Tania. Tania would bounce into meditation practice with a warm greeting for everyone, plonk herself down on a cushion and quietly smile to herself like she held the secrets to the universe. I can’t be certain that she [...]

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Clem

Clem was one of the first people that I met over the internet. We met on an internet music forum and decided to have a face-to-face meeting at Mario’s. Clem was a few years younger then me and I was quite taken that for a woman of her age she was incredible mature in her [...]

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Jamie

I have two sisters and no brothers however Jamie is as close to a biological brother as I have.  It doesn’t matter that we do not share blood lines because Jamie is family.  Even my family thinks Jamie is family. We’ve spiritually adopted him.  Like it or not, he belongs to us now. A kinship [...]

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Bec

I have a lot to thank Bec for. Bec is responsible for helping me discover that I really like going to the ballet. Not that I am attracted to the frou-frou perfection of the classical dance, on the contrary the overt feminine faultlessness is one of the things that makes me truly uncomfortable about it [...]

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Marieke

About 10 or so years ago, I was introduced to Marieke at a gig in the city.  After the opening formalities were over, we spoke deeply and fervently about our mutual obsession for the TV show ‘Big Brother’ (don’t judge, you know you loved it too!) and our private lady bits.  If that wasn’t an [...]

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James and Rach

One of my earliest recollections of pride was when I was allowed to hold my baby cousin James for the first time. I was finally old enough to hold someone else without being assisted by an adult; my tiny arms holding James tightly as he slept and I was pretty sure I was grinning hard.  [...]