Although I have been slow with my blog this year, it has nevertheless been an interesting first couple of months. Most of the time has been spent reflecting on the world around me and the effect others can have on our lives whether we welcome their contributions/intrusions or not. When I wrote The Colour Connection, […]
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Reality check
Here in Australia, Nature is currently having a tantrum. In North Queensland we should have been in Monsoon mode. Instead we have had unrelenting hot weather whilst further south the rain rules supreme demanding heartbreak. Floods always do. Elsewhere in the world I am sure Nature is also causing havoc of some kind. Or at […]
Continue readingNature – angel or demon, and the haibun storyteller
When Nature has something to say, she does not hesitate as we well know. There is no-one or nothing crueller. Then again, there is no-one or nothing more beautiful in the comeback. If it sounds like I think of Nature as a person, I do. As a child, I grew up on stories of the […]
Continue readingRainy Days
The last few weeks have been dedicated to finishing my second novel and beginning the least loved part of any writing endeavour – the editing. Totally caught in the process you sometimes forget to notice what is going on around you (unless it involves chocolate). I had to step back and just clear my head. […]
Continue readingWalking the fine line of life
. Then we moved to pets and how in looking after them our mood can improve. This led to a discussion on mental health where we were both very frank. It is a necessary element to wellbeing.
Continue readingWriter’s block comes in many forms and isn’t always about the writer
Being aware of those around us, of nature and taking pleasure in simple things is soothing.
Continue readingStand over tactics and a haibun
Writers are strange creatures who take from the world around them and find the need to put it down in some sort of written form, and they do. Stranger still is the fact that often they will create something and find it suits situations they weren’t expecting. They go with an idea, finding the method […]
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