Kerry Cue has written 18 humorous and thought provoking books. Kerry uses the Escape-the-Cliché-Thinking approach in her books. Thus Born to Whinge is an unreliable guide to parenting. With chapter titled ‘We’ll name him Hertzhog’ to ‘A neurotics guide to childrens’ birthday parties’ doctors have recommended the book to anxious parents to make them more relaxed about parenting. God help them! Kerry gave fashion a working over in Life on a G-String. Chapters included fashion tips for parents in ‘Oh Mum! You look like Priscilla Presley’s Poodle’ to ‘Fashion Advice for those about to be run over by a Bus.’ In Australia Unbuttoned, Kerry uses humour to highlight how Aussie’s behave on important occasions. This book is a serous commentary on the Aussie way of life. We live in a casual social culture but sometimes we are layback to the point of being in a coma while at other times we don’t know what we are doing. Chapters include ‘May Old Aquaintence be half-tanked’ and ‘Extinguishing Old Flames (A guide)’ I Left My Heart in Chinkapook and my Knickers in New York makes fun of our Aussie obsession with travel. If you think your passport photograph is a bitof a dog read on. This is a story from theEvening Mail. Scotland: ‘interviewed after his release by Austrian Border Police, Mr John Louvet, an investigative journalist, agreed that he had been travelling thoughout Europe with a snap of his neighbour’s cocker spaniel, Chummy, as his passport photograph. A police spokesman said, ‘It was a very good likeness.’ Kerry’s most recent book Forgotten Wisdom, is about losing and rediscovering the Art of Happiness. In what Kerry calls her 8 years of benign madness she lost the ability to laugh at life. Life isn’t linear and it’s not easy either but if, even in grim times, you can recognise the absurdity of life, then somehow it eases our struggles. Kerry gained an insight into clichéd thinking from this period. She was trying to turn herself into a cliché of the perfect mother, perfect author, perfect house and the perfect children. That didn’t work. That didn’t work. But once she could laugh about it… she could escape this suffocating cliché. You can follow her progress in this book. Mathspig: http://mathspig.wordpress.com Mathspig is a Media Savvy maths blog. It is Mathspig’s objective to stick a snout in the media trough and sniff out the maths rubbish and to make maths fun. Writing this blog led Kerry to an epiphany. Kery had studied maths and taught maths for 10 years, but coming back to maths after a 25-year break she suddenly realised she’d been duped. She never solved a maths problem that gave her an answer she she needed to know. She wanted to get the answer right. But it had no meaning. You just move onto the next problem. So Mathspig has evolved into a blog that creates realistic problems for students to solve such as ‘Can you duck a bullet?’ Mathspig uses basic but elegant maths to make the problems accessible to all. This is her newspaper experience at work. If you ask the right question students will want to know the answer. They are not given the answer. They have to work it out for themselves. This is MOTIVATION. And it works. Poempig: http://poempig.wordpress.com Why is poetry dead? What have poets done to send readers running screaming away from the poetry section in bookshops? Why are readers scared half to death by poets and would rather have their teeth removed than listen to a poetry reading? Kerry has some break-the-cliché answers and is currently working on shifting perceptions with humour. Meanwhile she has collected some good and readable poetry (with permission) on this blog. | 
