A Meditation on Young Romance I read a lot of young adult fiction and find much of it "dumbed-down" these days...riding along on plot ploys and dramatic twists designed to capture the elusive attention of our multi-tasking, digitally-immersed youth. It was refreshing and uplifting [...]
A provocative and moving story of a family disintegrating around a fearful obsession This is a fascinating and heartbreaking story - I wish I had time to think and write more about it, as it brought up a lot for me. If you've [...]
Oddly outrageous and wackily wise - the perfect gift for wilding women I just love this book - it's entirely original. This is a goddess who steps outside the hackneyed new age stereotypes and who calls to all women in their middle and [...]
A luminous and spacious window into the lives of a mother and daughter in rural Australia 1940s-50s An exquisite love letter to the outback landscape of rural News South Wales. When Anna’s father abandons family and farm, she and her mother are [...]
How to chart your own journey into the wilds of writing and write the story you were born to write What I love about Turner-Vesselago's Freefall approach is that it is highly intuitive and supports the student to chart their own journey [...]
We sit down at the table carrying our bowls of beef curry and rice with cucumber and yoghurt. As the boys hoe into their food, I (fresh from a weekend of chi kung and an acupuncture session with Roy and a walk under the stars) [...]
I dream we go to a lake hoping to see dolphins and whales – or perhaps it is an inlet from the sea. As we enter the water, we see a dolphin and a whale. I am there with J-P and Samuel. I caution Samuel [...]
I used to be a person who was afraid to speak my truth. I used to feel as though words were all tangled up inside me, like old ropes washed up by the sea on the coarse sand of my aching throat. I used to [...]
I had this dream pre-2009, and it now seems very significant, since 10 years later, in 2019, I’ve realized that I was born to be a storyteller and my vision now is to help revitalize the oral storytelling tradition. I spent years, pointlessly trying to [...]
“Oh Mum, Mum,” cried Samuel urgently, “I need a dollar ‘cause tomorrow they’ve got a special stall at school and they’re selling sex cookies.” “Sex cookies - that doesn’t sound right. Are you sure that’s what they’re called.” “I’m sure. I’m really sure. Sex cookies.” [...]
