I was worried having kids would kill my creativity. Instead it gave me a kaleidoscope | Chris Ames

There are days when nothing beautiful happens. But then my son grabs two stalks of kale and says, ‘Look, these giraffes are going to Bunnings’ On a particularly echo-filled video call with his grandfather, my four-year-old son turns to me and says, “Look, I can hear my reflection.” Something like this happens several times a week – a bit of fresh syntax, conjured by accident, that glistens and lodges in my brain. After recovering from a bad tumble, he might announce that his “tears have gone ...

By Chris Ames