I wrote this piece after hearing Leigh Sales interviewed at Adelaide Writers Week last month. I loved her book, ‘Any Ordinary Day’ and was captured again by the way she spoke it. Most of all the surprising impact a Jesuit priest called Steve Sinn had on her understanding of the task of ‘accompanying’. Sales had …
I’m so delighted to know this wonderful human, pictured here at a house concert early this year. You can listen Pádraig here on the On Being podcast. In a few weeks he will be in Melbourne again, at Sacred Edge in Queenscliff May 3-5, doing storytelling seminar and workshop at the Centre for Theology and …
Delighted to have this story out in the world – a new piece in Eureka Street today hathttp://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/the-man-in-the-pork-pie-hat
This piece of mine was published last week in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sunday Age. In her novel Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver depicts a young science teacher in the 1870’s. Thatcher Greenwood is ensnared in controversy about Darwin’s new theory of evolution. He is set up to fail as he tries to elaborate the …
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Looking forward to telling stories with the magnificent Fi Bottcher for the beginning of this retreat, and then to the spacious time the rest of the day will offer. Due to issues with the registration site and process, the first retreat that was set for March 23 will now run on Nov 23. But wait, …
A couple of weeks ago I attended a workshop with my poet friend, Pádraig O Tuama. He taught the practice of writing ‘collects’ – a kind of prayer. I have just been reading ‘Flight Ways, Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction’ by Thom van Dooren. The grief of it is with me still. …
In September 2017, The Big Issue published this story in their My Word section issue # 545. Because they rely on their vendors selling hard copies (and I admire their plan) they ask writers not to put their work up on line at the time of publication. Here it is now, for your enjoyment. When …
