Lucas Lormans - Creative Mind

**Featured in the Travel Section of Stuff - we are stepping up our game!" Hi all - New Stuff Nation post gone up today - My Happy Place - Enjoy My Happy Place

Modern Life - learning to enjoy the little things I start this essay with a term that means so many different things to so many different people. What is the definition of modern life for you? Does the term bring with it negative connotations or positive ones? Does it encompass your whole being, or just your daily mundane tasks?     For me, modern life means the way we as humans, in a sweeping generalisation, now live compared to previous generations. With advancement in technology, and as a result fundamental shifts in the 9-5 mentality, changes in the economy and the modern family unit (read: separated/co-parenting) becoming more widely accepted, things are far far different in our world than they were for our parents – both good and bad. I call this controlled chaos. Take the kids to school, go to work, run a couple of errands on your lunch-break, assist at school, complete homework with use of the internet, cook-dinner, run dog, take a w...

New Stuff Nation Article up now - A short love letter to my best mate , my dawg Nathan :) 38kg of pure dawg

St Albans News - Published articles Hi all - most of my St Albans News articles are linked below - I really enjoyed writing for this fantastic local newspaper a few years ago, and once I get back to that part of the city I hope to do so again. Feel free to let me know what you think via comments. St Albans Post-Quake development photo essay   - go to page 8 St Albans Road to recovery - go to page 3 St Albans Park Health Hazard - front page & page 4 St Albans School - Community Heart - go toPage 4 Old Orion site redevelopment - Front page Community Spirit in St Albans - go to page 11 Post Quake St Albans - go to Page 5 & 6 Although only 1 day in I hope some of you have had the chance to read some of my more casual pieces for Stuff nation, and maybe even enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed writing. I've submitted more today, so once they are published they will go up here. Feel free to contact me @ lucaslormans@orcon.net.nz if you have any feedback or qu...

Writing portfolio -The following are links to my published Stuff Nation work. Some of these are years old now, however displays my writing style for more commentary based pieces Facebook Facebook can do you no good  Yes, I am now a full-on facebook user, with a very strong love-hate relationship with the site/app - things can change a little in 3 years :) This was always my most commented on piece, and expect as I push myself out there more for it to be a talking point again - for all out there, yes, I am aware I wrote this and am now an avid user :) Lifestyle A Kiwi Modern Family Whens the right time to buy a house Christchurch - what a place we live in Music Reviews Korn's best album yet Albums I can't live without - Breaking Benjamin we are not alone Expressive   Fire Hero credits Christchurch community spirit A dose of siamese madness The day I became a Dad