Born in Sydney in 1973, majored in history at university, and minored in English. Graduated as a high school teacher, and worked briefly in that field, as well as a little less briefly in the field of ESL teaching in Korea, Japan and Germany.
American superheroes who wear masks do not generally have eyes. They just have a white space where their eyes are. But why?When I was younger, I did not question this. Batman, Wolverine, Spiderman; they just did not have eyes. That was how it was. I didn't read any of those comics, though. I read a black & white comic which was quite popular in Australia, The Phantom.Briefly, The Phantom is ...
We never really did Halloween in Australia when I was a kid, back in the 80s. We all knew about it, thanks to Charlie Brown comics, and various other American popular culture which came to Australia. Once I carved a jack-o-lantern from the most prolific variety of pumpkin in Australia, the Queensland Blue. I lit a candle in it and put it on the fence so that our next-door neighbours, the Queen of ...
I'd been drawn to Dresden for a long time before I went there in 2003. I don't know why, exactly. My father comes from Germany, but not Dresden. Probably the only thing I knew about the city was that it had been severely bombed in World War Two.I studied German there for two months at the end of '03. I saw Dresden at its best, when the autumn leaves were changing on the streets and the hillsides, ...
