Ram Dass Reflections

Sunday Blog 9 – 24th October 2021 Last night I was perusing one of our excellent independent bookshops, already clutching a couple of eclectic choices, when I saw a hardcover copy of Being Ram Dass. This is a memoir written not long before Ram Dass’ death in 2019, and I plucked it off the shelf, …

The generosity of writers

Sunday Blog 7 – 10th October 2021 If I remember correctly, I saw Michael Robotham speak at the Margaret River Writers’ Festival a few years ago – or perhaps the Perth Writer’s Festival. My memory is notoriously unreliable. For me, there’s nothing I like more than a Writers’ Festival where you can buy all sorts …

Dirty linen

Sunday Blog 6 – 3 October 2021 “It will involve a free trip to Sydney”, I told my daughter. “All we have to do is air our dirty linen on national television.” Luckily, I had her at “Free trip to Sydney.” Clearly, I’m writing about long, long ago, in a pre-Covid world of 2018. Somebody …