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The pen scratches across the page rebel hump rebel hump rebel hump*. What do these words mean, asks the pen. I don’t know, replies the wrist. These are the words forming and the writer, stationed at Dolina Charlotty, in a … Continue reading →

Minoru Aose is a middle-aged architect, single, divorced, and with only monthly visits with his teenage daughter. When he’s asked to replicate his famous ‘Y residence’ for some new clients, he decides to visit it for the first time since … Continue reading →

Being a good person, or at least becoming a better person, became part of my Stoic journey because it was one of the only three things that were under my complete control. Forget about trying to change other people to … Continue reading →

It’s a little like the search for the perfect handbag. It takes years, decades even. You try and then buy, hoping for the right size and shape with the ideal ratio of pockets, flaps and zips, thinking you have it … Continue reading →

Recently, the wonderful coach and mentor, editor, podcaster, writer, retreatist (?) extraordinaire and lovely human Meg Dunley recorded our conversation about writing, and here it is. Meg is so easy to talk to, and I had a lot of fun. … Continue reading →

The courtyard led through an archway onto Lenin Avenue, one of the city’s busiest streets. Ancient tin buses wheezed past carrying workers to outlying factories. Trams and trolley buses trundled up and down. Heavy black Russian tourers threaded their way … Continue reading →

Dad died in February 1999. A few years after his death, a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the National Gallery of Victoria. Almost all of his paintings were displayed in the exhibition. He was ‘speaking’ to us … Continue reading →

If I had to do a three-word review of Guts, I’d write ‘engaging, illuminating, unsatisfying’. Engaging, because reading it is like listening to Melissa Leong talk. After no interest whatever in Masterchef, last year we watched the whole thing and … Continue reading →

Along with many others in analysis, I learned to honor the world of dreams, of active imagination, and begin to ask questions such as “But what is that choice in service to inside?” A simple enough question, but it begins … Continue reading →

After reading so many Margery Allingham crime novels, I thought I’d find out about the writer herself. But The Adventures of Margery Allingham is a bit of a misnomer, really. Though in the Albert Campion novels, events move at breakneck … Continue reading →