Living Simply Panel
This panel should be a lot of fun, hope you can make it!
Captured Moments
A Personal Review
What a lovely, honest and inspiring book. You write beautifully with careful insight into what to put in your story but more importantly what not to put in. I love your sense of adventure coupled with your strong environmental ethics… Read More »A Personal Review
Ubud Readers and Writers Festival
The festival seemed amazing, the glimpse that I got. International authors telling their stories and inspiring countless aspiring and established writers. The bit I remember most was meeting a woman in the pool. Actually, firstly I met her at the… Read More »Ubud Readers and Writers Festival
Book of the Week
Many thanks to the Mercury paper and Book Reviewer Rachel Edwards for making Spinifex Baby book of the week. The Tasmanian Community have been so supportive of my book. I feel very lucky.
A New Baby
When my neighbour was about to have her baby, it’s as though the world took a deep breath and held it until the baby was safely born. The mother and baby are now revered, cosseted and adored by the community, as if the world has… Read More »A New Baby
Gardening with Friends
Sometimes I feel like a plumber. People often suggest to me at work, when they see me escorting children around the world of gardening, that I must have a flourishing veggie patch at home. Each time in the last few… Read More »Gardening with Friends
The world in focus
Having the time, capacity and desire to be able to write is such a gift. As is being able to see the world clearly. The last few weeks a typical winter Tassie virus somehow got into my eyes and they stopped… Read More »The world in focus
Tassie Launch
Snow softened the top of Mt Wellington and freezing blasts of wind pushed woollen clad crowds off the streets into Fullers Bookshop on Thursday night. The contrast was stark as Chris Gallagher and I conversed about the realities of living in the heart… Read More »Tassie Launch
Two days to go..
Two days until the Tasmanian launch at Fullers bookshop. It ‘s such an honour to be able to have this event surrounded by people who helped me over the past five years to make this book a reality.
Natasha Mitchell at Life Matters Interview
I was just sent this photo of Natasha Mitchell and I at the ABC studios in Sydney. She is wonderful so I have to share this..