Very Worst &
Very Best

One night on my way home from work after living in NYC a couple of years, I realized I'd experienced some of the very worst and very best moments of my life here. This city will do that. Mine were that my mum had passed away suddenly while I was thousands of miles away. And I'd run my first marathon, cheered on by literally thousands of people for 4.5hrs.

Realizing everyone on that crowded subway platform must have their own two stories, and feeling a need to connect after losing my mum, I felt compelled to start asking people.

Since then I've collected hundreds of stories on the streets of New York, at Speakers Corner in London and in my hometown, of Melbourne, Australia.

All the strange looks and double-takes were completely worth the gut-wrenching, laugh-out-loud-ridiculous and completely mundane stories I heard. And as someone who writes every day, I was reminded first-hand how powerfully storytelling can connect us.