My Books
Coming soon…
But first, let me start the year by wishing Australia well. Here I mean all the good people speaking out, trying their best to preserve as much as they can… more
Tis the Season!
And I have done nothing at all Christmassy, which is fine. But don’t worry, I won’t do anything political either. Anyway, the politics in so many places is not anything… more
Of Friends and Places…
I’m late, but a lot’s been going on, and I confess I’ve been hanging out on Twitter and Instagram, as you can see from the bottom of this page. Another… more
The heat’s been getting to me….
The hum in this heat is fat and languid as it falls on my desk making the ink in my pen run away run away away from the hum in… more
Here´s to Roppotucha´s Creatures!
The last weeks and months have been weighing on me health-wise and heart-wise, with the Muse turning up her nose, but who can blame her with all that´s been going… more
A Toronto/Waidhofen meandering
I´m sitting in the wilds of Waidhofen – that place of John Irving fame when he set free the bears from the Vienna zoo. And so in a weird way… more
Seventy is NOT just a number!
My recent gut reaction to a tweet expressing a sense of not belonging as a writer, be it by birth, nationality, domicile, language, themes, yes, and even cliché usage —I… more
Revamping 2019
2018 was a tough year in many respects, mostly health-wise, but 2019 is looking brighter in some. Christmas visits from Australia by The Possum and her husband, as well as… more
Protest is in the air and on the ground
I´ve neglected my blog due to some health niggles and frustration with the political status quo, as well as a spate of rejections, and also accepting the fact that I… more