If you’ve ever lived on the Northern Hemisphere, you’ll have observed that the appearance of colourful eggs, plastic chooks and chocolate bunnies coincides with that unmistakable feel of Spring in the air. Suddenly, the days [...]
It’s November the third of the year 2019 AD, one day after my fortieth birthday which was celebrated as it should, with a party. It’s morning time and I don’t have a hangover because how [...]
I had to get back into the dense and dark jungle that was my crappy first draft. It was a dump of stories that had been knocking around in the cobweb-infested corners of my mind. [...]
This week I turn the word over to Stephen Knox, one of the writers from the Writers in Residence group that meets last Thursday of each month at 6PM in the Lane Cove Library. Stephen’s [...]
"When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. " ~ Audrey Hepburn One of my first jobs in Australia was [...]
“Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people [...]
"Mark, a yen, a buck or a pound, That clinking, clanking, clunking sound, Is all that makes the world go 'round," ~ Liza Minelli, Cabaret It's all too easy to look at our world today [...]
"Diamonds are forever" and so are friendships. In Turkish we have a saying "pirlanta gibi insan" to describe a star-like quality which certain people possess that makes them valuable. In fact, I'd rather have good [...]
