On the Trail of a Ghost

On the Trail of a Ghost

I wrote an essay about researching the life of Sarah Brooks and the insights from being out in the disarming landscape east of Esperance. It is now published in the Landscapes journal. ~ I am on the trail of a ghost, the ghost of Miss Sarah Brooks, who died almost one...
Starting out late

Starting out late

  I’m on the wrong side of 45 and I want my life to take a different turn. A turn towards writing, and if I’m lucky, being published. I don’t understand what took me so long to get here. Writing is something I have always wanted to do, but I...
Barefaced Storytelling

Barefaced Storytelling

When I got to Albany Entertainment Centre and saw the two hundred chairs and bumped into all sorts of people I knew professionally, I started to question my choice of story to tell on stage. And I started to feel really nervous. My friends were all… ‘You’ll be...
Israelite Bay

Israelite Bay

Getting to Israelite Bay is not easy. It is a major setting for my novel and I have only managed to step foot on the sandy salty ground twice. The first time was in 2006, when Tim and I were at the very beginning of our trip around Australia. Marcus, a friend of Tim...
Balijup Eco Art Retreat

Balijup Eco Art Retreat

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I was just saying to a friend recently that I have quite a few hats at the moment. One of them is being one part of a team called Sensing Place running Eco-Art retreats…. my role is really just to help with the organisation and...