My personal journey as an author has led me to meeting some fascinating people and Jo Franklin of SeaCastle Films from Los Angeles, CA is one such person. Today I wanted to blog about Jo’s amazing film titled: A Gift … Read More
Hold on tight we’re galloping into Thursday Art-Day…. I couldn’t resist featuring the great Norman Thelwell. His drawings are so full of humour that it’s impossible not to smile or laugh out loud at the antics of his pony kids. Just … Read More
World Environment Day Forests: Nature At Your Service | 05 June World Environment Day (WED) is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. WED activities take … Read More
Today I just had to give you a reason to smile… Last week I was in Toowoomba dropping off some copies of ‘Tails’ and ‘Voices’ to Dymocks and on the way home I drove past a secondhand book store I … Read More
It’s Memorial Day Weekend in the USA and although it is a time set aside to honour those who gave their lives for freedom, I felt the words Phillip wrote about looking back to move forward remind us of our … Read More
Elephant Walk by Robert Standish I decided to begin an early spring clean, I know it’s not Spring here in Australia but it had been a while since I had dusted my bookcase so last week was the time. Naturally … Read More
It’s facinating how time changes things, but also things stay the same. The only thing that is ‘absolute’ right now, is that nothing is ‘absolute’. When I was researching for my recent talk I came across a Guest Editorial by … Read More
For Sunday quote of the week one of the enlightening quotes by Aristotle… “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” Aristotle quotes Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), a detail of … Read More
There’s no better advertisement than a satisfied customer! I still have to pinch myself when I receive an email saying how much a reader has enjoyed my novels. These days I have a small but wonderful network of people assisting … Read More
Have you ever heard the saying…“We buy things we don’t want to impress people we don’t like!” Over the decades I have thought about and noticed this type of behaviour in nearly every aspect of my life and amazingly even … Read More