Some words after my last blog in January 2020 as we move into a post Covid world-yes there will be life after the pandemic, albeit in...

Staying positive, having hope and learning kindness really can help the medicine go down-it’s even better that just a spoon full of sugar.

“Optimistic” you may well say and I would agree, but without some hope and a positive mind set, the challenges can be even greater.

Show some patience, Be kind. Life is a challenge Always mind. We all have so much to give Avoid getting into a bind. To share To love To...

For my next blog, my first for 2019 I thought I would pick one of my new poems for the next book, hopefully to be completed by the end of...

I wrote this poem on 1 August 2018, at the height of the drought after visiting Toowoomba and being deeply affected by the impact of the...

Us who love the magic from a piano. What does it say to you….from the creative realm…… as you play? As you listen to it? Some very...

A long and winding road Journeys this way and that. The highways, my beloved Glass House back ways. The wide open spaces between Esk and...

Too early for the evening star, Looking up into the blue heaven above and afar. ‘Tis only late afternoon, well before seeing the moon....

The rains have come after the months of drought. Much of the land was turned without. The crops planted with hard labour and effort, With...

It’s only early. The city awakes. The cars rushing this way and that. The early morning commuters already scurrying from the station....

Arguments, anger, frustration. Conflict, mediation, meditation. Today it’s all about our cortex, our right brain, your left brain. Our...

To smile, to laugh, to be kind and gracious. To resiliently cope despite the stress, To the outsider, life is sometimes seen as a mess. I...

Always looking out into the distance, there is much beyond the window. Today it’s dappled light, a reminder of Hopkins, from the days of...

Keep that grin on your chin and you’ll be right mate. Said to me the other day by an old timer who, passing by, has seen a thing or two...