It had been almost two decades since my unsuccessful attempt to find a father whom I had never met, only to discover his earthly life had ended, just one year…
It was a strange looking humanoid object, carved from dark wood with stretched neck and bulging eyes: E.T. for the classroom! I never quite worked out its purpose (past or…
The dust was still coming back to earth as we scrambled from the wreckage. There was a discord of voices in panic. People lurched from the mangled, still-smoking mess of…
Each and every example of human existence - a diversity of being, cooked up in a melting pot of nature and nurture - delivers a unique result: a remarkable blueprint…
Consciously or subconsciously, we all evaluate our progress as we move from branch to branch on our tree of life. This notion encompasses everyone: frontrunners who have reached the pinnacle…
The love of my life (to that point in time) appeared out of a dance club melee, shortly after I arrived in Adelaide. I was scouting ahead of my boss…
"Through the blood, through the mud, to the green fields far beyond!" I was just twenty and not long into my first real job, when this tall, gangly, darksuited specimen,…
Where an illusion is accomplished that is purposefully deceptive Those who grow up only knowing the sanctuary of their true forebears, often find it difficult to comprehend why others search…
Growing up in a distant corner of England, my high school days were a sort of love-hate story: loved Geography and hated the rest; loved one or two teachers, hated…
There’s something special about travelling as a twosome. Lone rangers harp on about doing it alone and merging with the crowd - they have the group selfies - but who…
Whittling Our Niche
Imagine what one doesn’t see, Or hear, or feel, or experience, Through any one life On this blue-green globe. The choice we have is limitless, The path…
Depression sometimes overcame George, when he thought about his meanderings through life: one impulse to the next.
"Nowadays,” he mused, “Every young person I bump into seems to forward-plan their…