Perhaps during the last two years of the pandemic lockdowns one might assume that this would have been the right time to write. Plenty of...

“There is nothing permanent except change.” -Heraclitus Written April 2020 This has not been the year I expected it to be. Although the...

Eulogy (noun: a tribute to someone who has just died) A thing that is so hard to write and deliver. And those not giving the eulogy will...

📷 I am a note keeper. I keep all sorts of notes. Writing ideas, names for characters, events that make me laugh or cry, recipes,...

📷 “Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” Dale Carnegie. A name is so important and I’m sure there are many...

It’s my mother’s birthday today and despite the fact that she died 15 years 3 months and 8 days ago when I started to talk about her to...

📷 When I work with young people who are miserable, angry or scared I ask them what they think the next day will be like, or the day...

📷 A recent trip to Melbourne made me think about the merits of walking without a destination in mind. It seemed that in the city centre...

📷 It’s hard to explain the sense of dread and grief that accompanies the end of one’s summer holidays. The end of January signifies the...

📷 Okay so only one of those is a real word! And the other is mine. Both have contributed to the festive world that exists for the week...

📷 It’s hard to believe that finishing writing a book is anything but a great relief. But there is a strange sense of sorrow in the...

📷 The art of over thinking a dozen different things at once; coupled with significant worrying about things over which I have no...

Some of us go through life thinking that at a certain age we will have all the answers and that there is little else we can discover...

It’s probably no surprise to anyone that most of the world has been holding its collective breath as Trump and Kim Jong-un trade threats...

There’s a thousand other song titles that could be used when a discussion about love is ensuing. And certainly too many to list in a...

There’s nothing like an injury to help with a re-evaluation of the self. I have taken a tumble. An undignified spill that had nothing to...

Dear Pauline I was disheartened to hear your comments the other day regarding the inclusion of children with autism in mainstream...

What in the prodifudulation is that? Something indecipherable and incomprehensible. Well for many teachers across Australia it’s report...

After catching up with wonderful friends this weekend I was drawn again to the topic of storytelling and the joys of a tale well told. It...

I might have enjoyed being a rover, if that was in fact an occupation. The wandering constantly without a fixed destination makes the...