When clearing out my parents’ house, I found a tatty box of records. Cast iron and frail Joni stared out at me from Hejira. I remembered walking into a friend’s […]
Continue reading »A Gift of Time
Of course I’d seen it before but never really thought about it. A fob watch, not much bigger than a penny, worn by my grandfather while he fought in WWI […]
Continue reading »Walking the Dog – an occasional blog about people we meet out walking.
One afternoon, Miss Mia shot off across the oval. I was on the phone to an expensive solicitor and attempted a vexed whisper to call her back but short of […]
Continue reading »Rebecca and me and POV
Starting an idea for a novel precipitates the same issue; Point Of View. What emerging character has the best POV to tell the story from? It’s a hard question. In […]
Continue reading »Who is in Kindred, Tasmania?
A few month ago I was a social media virgin, but now I’ve been touched for the very first time. The hits to my CONSUMPTION: A Novel website have given […]
Continue reading »A Funny thing happened
… so there I was, on a sunny spring day walking with my dog, Miss Mia, along Nutgrove Beach in Hobart Tasmania. We were going to one of my reading […]
Continue reading »Reflections on an image of Joni
This article and photos showed up on Jane Fonda’s website in the last few days. It was so great to see an image of Joni whose been out of the […]
Continue reading »A Bookish Affair – Interview with me and Review of CONSUMPTION: A Novel
A Bookish Affair – Oct 12, 2011
Continue reading »New Ideas in Old Places
Recently, my 85 year old mother had to be admitted to a high-care nursing home. Never to do anything by halves, she’d fallen and cracked 3 ribs and 3 vertebrae. […]
Continue reading »The Slings and Arrows of Self Publishing
01 October, 2011 With the release of the value-for-money Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch, e-readers are now commonplace. A friend of mine is getting one for her elderly, reader-ly mother. […]
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