Books, Inspiration, True Stories, Writing
Why Being an Author is Like Being a Top Athlete At the end of the Paris Olympics this year, Sifan Hassan did the unimaginable. She won medals in two long-distance races and then topped it off by winning gold in the marathon. All within 10 days with barely any recovery...
Books, History, Loreless, Travel, True Stories, Writing
Around the World: Who Has the Right to Write About Indigenous Culture? After Hong Kong, my trip around the world took me back to my birth country: Australia. It had been some years since I had returned and I had assumed the country had progressed. At least in terms of...
Non-fiction, Travel, True Stories, Writing
Lockdown Stories: The Spaghetti Incident The Netherlands has gone into another full lockdown in the past week because of a resurgence of the virus. At first I was frustrated by this. For one thing it means going back to homeschooling my kids. However, out of the dark...
Non-fiction, Travel, True Stories, Writing
Around the World: Escape From Hong Kong In my previous post I detailed some of my experiences during my short stay in Hong Kong in October 2019. I mentioned that my timing for going there had perhaps not been wise. Even before I flew out from Amsterdam the news had...
Travel, True Stories, Writing
Around the World: The Riots of Hong Kong As a writer, the journeys I take are usually in my head. However, towards the end of 2019, I embarked on a physical journey. I went around the world one and a half times between October 2019 and March 2020. After which, the...
Books, Brimstone and Ashes, Inspiration, True Stories, Writing
Recently, Brimstone and Ashes, the story I worked on for more than a year, was published. To be honest, there were times I thought it would never get there. But it has. I can sleep soundly at night. I am still an author! A Year to Forget The past year has been...