19.02.2024
Everybody Can Get In On This Act...
If you live rurally, even semi-rurally, this may not seem too big a deal, though it’s likely to hit home if you reverse the roles.
Reflection
My latest and the occasional light rant...
31.12.2023
2024, What's It Good For?
If you answered at all, take it as a positive: you’ve still a pulse. Now you can press the humility button and say to yourself I have it all…
23.12.2023
Picture This: I Got Something Wrong.
This is a bit of a personal howler, though it's been pointed out it doesn't really count as such, coming in under the get-out-of-gaol category: subjects not broadly known...
04.11.2023
It's All Right There on the Label...
While a teenager ... when only people were a mystery, watching them closely developed into a habit of mine. On display were their fingerprints, some a greasy smudge, others sublimely light.
15.10.2023
"Australia is a Paradise..."
My father spoke those words almost every time I visited him, especially when we were about to enjoy food prepared outdoors.
24.09.2023
That, Madam / Sir, Is None of Your Business.
In an earlier age that response may have been an acceptable answer to the question:
08.09.2023
It Wasn't a Spielberg Surprise...
You've got to be ready for the surprise, especially when you're on a road trip, the blacktop a blur...
26.6.2023
It's a Funny Feeling You Get...
It would be a gross overstatement to liken the feeling alluded to, above, to that of a castaway throwing an SOS out to sea in a bottle, then sighting a rescue ship's smoke on the horizon.
04.06.2023
Book Signing at Books@Stones
Author signing at Books at Stones, Stones Corner, today!
03.06.2023
The Art of Compression
Two characters: a principal, the other a support—who may in fact be a foe in disguise—in a location amidst a crowd, or secluded and private, these are the makings of a scenario.