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Love & the Greenhouse Effect - UK Edition
Published by Pan Macmillan in the UK and South Africa, 1993.
My family are a disaster area. We have a lot of fun but sometimes I wish we were a bit more normal and boring. The problem is, we all have too many ideas. Different ideas. Everyone of us is into our own thing, so we all run around getting in each other’s way, instead of getting together and helping each other. What I mean is they should get together and help me. Because my ideas are the most important.
Love & the Greenhouse Effect - Lovelines edition UK, Pan Macmillan, 1992
Reproducing Nature's Abundance
Every home gardener dabbles in plant propagation at some stage.
A Tree a Day
We hear a lot about trees these days, in all sorts of contexts - as oxygen producers, soil stabilisers, animal habitats, timber and paper producers.
The Right Brained Veggie Patch
Welcome to our new gardening column. In each issue we’ll be looking at ideas, philosophies and skills to help you keep your patch of planet earth happy and productive.
Permaculture
Permaculture has come of age. Ass we head toward the millennium, its wholistic tenets of sustainability, efficient design, and environmental awareness have been embraced by the mainstream.
Sydney's Summer Child. Back in the Day
Published in Meniscus Literary Journal, vol 8. no. 2, 2020.
Memories of an innocent childhood…
Ashram on the Ganges in Three Parts
Published in Meniscus Literary Journal vol 9. no 1, 2021.
These flash pieces are a collage of vignettes from the years I spent visiting and living in a yoga ashram in India.
Second Chances, Dolly Fiction, Australia
Published by Australian Consolidated Press, 1991.
I wrote this, my first novel, in 1990, long hand, when my daughter was a baby. I needed to write for money, and I wanted to write fiction. Inspired by a few seasons as a bushwalking guide in Tasmania, it’s set on the Cradle Mt - Lake St Claire Overland Track.
Second Chances Dolly Fiction Australia
Weird and Wacky Plants
Published by ABC Books in 2002.
Have you heard about flowers that stink like rotting meat? Purple carrots, blue corn and rainbow spinach?
Keep reading…
Peacebuilding Ecology and Personal Transformation in Colombia
This Masters dissertation examines bottom-up peacebuilding in Colombia from the perspective that ecological principles apply to human society.
University of Sydney, 2023
Peace Profile: Dunna
I wrote this after completeing a Graduate Certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies. It’s a profile of an organisation in Colombia called Dunna, run by my brilliant peacebuilding/yoga colleagues.
In Colombia, a land that knows too well the price of war, a bold compassionate peace building goal is becoming a reality…
The garden at the end of the lane
Published in Tasmanian Life magazine, in January 2008.
At the end of a long gum tree-lined lane in Glen Huon lies a lush green valley; a haven for birds and wildlife, and a sanctuary for two avid gardeners.
Barry Davidson’s Claremont Garden
Published in Tasmanian Life in July 2008.
Claremont is an unremarkable outer suburb of Hobart. Barry Davidson’s garden is a delightful surprise: a completely remarkable labour of love and an important collection of magnolias, rhododendrons, maples and a certain unsusual orchid.
Guides Like Us
Published in Out There magazine, Autumn, 1994. It’s a reflection on my first ever trip as a tour guide. Oh dear… but we had a lot of fun.
It was late afternoon, high summer. I gazed out the van window at the Tasmanian midlands, as dry and still as a lizard in the sun.