The answer, of course, is “Christmas”. It doesn’t matter whether red or green chilli is hottest (and there is plenty of heated debate about that!), Christmas is a combo of the two.… more →
art food travel people the world... yeeha!wrote 2 weeks ago: Fresh from writing about the merits of literary competitions, including the impetus to create, I … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: An on-going discussion at my regular creative cafe meet-up is about the merits of the “prize p … more →
wrote 1 month ago: There are lots of literary prizes on offer around Australia, but it is not often you see one for cri … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Top of Broadway run, Mammoth Mountain There’s something magical about skiing under a bright blue sky … more →
wrote 4 months ago: The answer, of course, is “Christmas”. It doesn’t matter whether red or green chil … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Santa Fe is heaven for an art pig like me, especially as I have been able to visit artists’ studios … more →
wrote 4 months ago: We’re in Navajoland now, an area bigger, I am told, than ten of the 50 US states. A day’s drive from … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Hitting the road in New Mexico takes us through badlands, mesa and mountains littered with ski field … more →
wrote 5 months ago: On Santa Fe’s Canyon Road, gallery after gallery glitters and beckons with snow-covered sculptures. … more →
wrote 5 months ago: There is snow right now in the high desert country of New Mexico, so the rattlesnakes and the bears … more →
wrote 10 months ago: So lucky to live in a lovely little town like Armidale… Coming home from all those travels (an … more →
wrote 10 months ago: When I was a bookseller a lifetime ago I remember a local author telling me (before she hit the REAL … more →
wrote 10 months ago: It is the one destination guaranteed to make the heart thump: home. A journey over, a circle complet … more →
wrote 10 months ago: I have never set out to write an erotic novel, and probably never will, but poetry does give some li … more →
wrote 10 months ago: I must admit that it crossed my mind that I might not survive the light plane flight over Alaska … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Start the day with a jaunt on an icebreaker to Portage Glacier with the man in shorts, marvel … more →
wrote 10 months ago: How can I possibly have been so excited about fireworks and piano bars in New York when there are gl … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Through the police cordon onto the refurbed lightship Frying Pan at Pier 66, and upstairs for a spot … more →
wrote 10 months ago: I don’t know who Marie was, but her crisis is a hoot. Even before we’re half way down th … more →