So just half an hour ago, I finished writing a new poem, one inspired by another poet I know, who has a website I follow, and receive emails from every now and then. As soon as I read that poet’s new post, my brain switched on, and once I’d opened…

Snakes and I have had a challenging time together, from nothing at all together, to not liking them, to being phobic about them, and now, back to not liking them around my place, but OK about them other times. I live in South Australia, rural South Australia in fact, and…

My move from suburbs to country was one of the best things I’ve ever done! Since moving to the country I’ve come such a long way, from the low level public servant I once was … I’ve left the nine to five grind, become a mother, bred many lovely puppies…

My son was helping my husband and I to fill in some forms today, to get visas, for an upcoming trip overseas. There was a qestion that had to be filled in so my son asked, what was my religion, Agnostic? …

Fences have many purposes, from keeping things in, to keeping other things out. They can also be used to delineate spaces, show where ‘yours’ starts and ends. When you fence your home in, are you doing it to keep yourself and your ‘stuff’ safe, are you showing what you have…

I just read an article here on Medium, this one in fact: https://medium.com/the-haven/you-took-my-breath-away-and-now-im-dead-dc5c320a8d04 and it made me think, about things. I smiled inwardly as I read the article as well, but thinking was my main thing, as I read it. What I was thinking, or wondering, (are wondering and thinking…

When I recently had the idea of become a student again, at the age of sixty, I received so much encouragement to take on the challenge of going on to studay at a much higher level than I’d done before. …

At the moment, Australia is teetering at the cusp of an important decision — The whole of the country must vote in a referendum on whether we should recognise the Australian Aboriginal people as having lived here for over 60,000 years as custodians of our country (their country), and to…

I am a writer of both poetry and prose, and my understanding of myself has always been of being an Artist in the Genre of Literature. I appreciate viewing visual artworks but have never before seriously considered myself as any kind of artist beyond literature. But recently, an idea come…