Welcome to The Badlands – a latenight lullaby
Bodies of children, guns more sacred Lay in heaps on crimson pavement The future dead, the ghosts of hope A shattered nation with prayers will cope . Pagoda beauty, suddenly soured Hateful icons, a new leader's power Crowded camps, no fault their own Despair and...
Ding, Dong, the Blog is Dead – pondering progress
Blogging these days is not like it once was... a fickle, little-read beast at best. And it's hard to believe that just five years back I chose to take a dip in the blogosphere, a late starter, a wandering writer through the once-was maze of Wordpress and Blogger, of...
Close-up and Personal – an exceedingly generous profile, courtesy of Melanie Jean Juneau of `Blogcatalog’
Having discovered a rather humbling profile of myself RIGHT HERE, I must thank the respected Canadian writer `motherofnine' for her kind words. Meeting Melanie some time back - via the world blogging communities of Blogcatalog and Broowaha - I've come to know her as a...
Faces of Fame – an ode to John Wilson St
A face stares out from my PC screen: a suited-up man about 30yrs old, the boyish face round, the hairline receding. I see a clean face, but for the sparing outline of a beard. I see a thin mouth, the eyes narrowed and slightly turned, the face of a man who killed...
My First Interview – courtesy of Alana Munro of Google’s `Support-a-Writer’.
To be perfectly honest, the only things I knew about the town of Karratha until recently, was that it was somewhere up in the northwest Australian outback, and the commercial centre of the Pilbara region; Karratha taking its name from the indigenous language meaning...
Versatile Blogger Award 2013 – crikey! a third blog award.
Thanks so much to Melanie (motherofnine9) for thinking of my humble blog for this award, being one of the 1st BC members to touch base with me on joining this great community. Melanie is well respected in blogging circles, a warm human being, a prolific writer and a...
Epically Awesome Award of Epic Awesomeness 2013 – my blog’s second award!
Haha, a new award, and quite a mouthful. But an award from a respected blogger is gratefully accepted; so thanks heaps to Diary of an Internet Nobody for thinking of my writing, and its recent evolution into a modest blog. `An aging hippy living in Devon', Dale...
People and Places – a poem
the place I see is special; a block of stone or wending path built by many hands or feet. and in my dream, I dream of this: a vibration, scent or residue, from pasts that are long lost. till when I wake the dream takes shape, wrought of violence, longing or...
After the Opera – the sad passing of Marzipan the cat
Many in Melbourne this week are mourning the passing of Marzipan, the grand old tortoiseshell diva of the city’s theatre scene. The much-loved Astor cat died on Sunday 24th March 2013 Australian time after a lingering illness, at the ripe old age of 21 years. It was...
Sunshine Blogger Award 2013 – a welcome surprise!
For those in the dark : `The Sunshine Award is an award given by bloggers to other bloggers. The recipients of the Sunshine Award are bloggers who positively and creatively inspire others in the blogosphere.' To be honest, this Sunshine Award may well be my first...