Mother’s Day 2022 Photo from pexels.com With Mother’s Day a week away, I know that the thoughts of many of us will be about that special person in our lives. I know that “Mother” or “Mum” will mean different things to everyone, depending on that person. In my case, my…

There was something dodgy going on … Many years ago, after my first wife and I had moved to Adelaide (South Australia) from Melbourne, we made regular visits to her parents, who, a year before, had bought their new home, a farm in the Adelaide Hills. After a few visits…

Or only those blessed with an amazing singing voice? Having a great singing voice was not a prerequisite in the first band I was in, just the ability to sing at all, and be a “front-man”. It was the 1980s and, to raise funds, the Church I attended was putting…

A Story of Courage aboard the Titanic Liam O’Connor had made up his mind. The first twenty-one years of his young life had not been easy. Growing up in Ireland certainly had its challenges. …

What an ordinary vehicle got up to … It was back in the day, when I was young, naive and a bit foolish. I was 19, and in my first year of being in the workforce, working for one of Australia’s major banks, when my mother pulled me aside to…

Writers, is this one of the answers to memory loss? My father, who passed away at the start of February this year, had been suffering with advancing dementia for the last few years of his life. I explained my family’s experience in my article “Grief and Hope”. The interesting thing…

Relief at high altitude … It was a mid-Autumn day when we embarked on our journey north. A group of us, including one of my best friends and my sister’s friends, had planned this long weekend hike, along the challenging Cathedral Range, north-west of Melbourne, for weeks. We drove through…

How do we tell ourselves to stop before we act? Wow! The 2022 Oscars will be remembered as always for many reasons. Some of us will want to catch a glimpse of our favourite actors or film and hopefully see our heroes win or take out a Golden Globe. My…