Writing Out Loud

There is The Sanctuary in Sydney, run and owned by the same family who founded it in the 1930s, where animals indigenous to Australia live and roam free. Many are animals that were found as orphans, or hurt, or thrown over the fences by people who had them as pets and couldn’t handle them. There […]

Oh Blog Di, Oh Blog Da…life goes on. So many fascinating experiences the hardest decision is where to start. How about 1770 when Captain Cook discovered Australia? Or 1788 when Captain Arthur Philip arrived in Sydney Harbor with his first fleet of British convicts to be followed by 162,000 more between that first landing and […]

There was something different about this lovely city and its inhabitants that I noticed during my first walk through the area of town known as The Rocks (more about this later). Large glass towers loomed, punctuated by Sydney sandstone Victorian buildings left intact from when they were erected mostly in the late 1800s during what […]

BALI, Indonesia – Saturday, October 24, 2009 Wayan picked us up at ten to visit the Royal Palace at Menguwi.  It is a beautiful compound, long abandoned.  Now it boasts decaying structures and intricately carved statues of gods – photos to follow.  I sprinkled Eberhard with holy water and then myself.  We continued to Bedugul, […]

I often describe myself as perfectly “ambibrainstrous,” in that I switch back and forth between my right and left brain the way that ambidextrous people do between their right and left hands.  I have an MBA in management and an MFA in creative writing, so instead of switching forks like my manual skilled kin, I […]

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