If you are already reading Passionate Travellers: Around the World on 21 Incredible Journeys in History, you will know that the book is divided into geographical regions, that it spans over 2,000 years of history, and is illustrated with a
Doors: open and shut
Doors may be a barrier or an invitation. It depends how we see them, how brave or how curious we are. Even openings without doors can encourage or deter us from venturing further. And in many ways they are like
Visual Inspiration for Writers
Pictures inspire the muse, and they are fun. If you have visited me here before, you know already that visual images inspire my writing. I particularly enjoy still photographs for this purpose because they represent an arrested moment in life.
Bee’s Knees, Tongues and Other Bits
NZ flax flower (Phormium tenax) Spring, so full of expectations. To be alive in spring is to be whirled up into spirals of hope; of unfolding leaves, pending buds, and new beginnings. While waiting for an emerging prospect of my
Inspiration: what you see is not what you get
Inspiration comes in mysterious ways but one of them is not staring tensely at a blank screen or page. Our brains get cluttered with everyday expectations blocking the freeways for our imagination to wonder, speculate, and activate our creativity. Less