Building a sense of community, close to home or across the world. It is through community we understand what other people endure and how lucky we really are. It is through community, we know who to help and how.
Marie Lavender is celebrating her 350th blog post anniversary and she recently asked her wide network of author friends to describe their writing process. Take a look at the wide range of awesome and unique responses that came back. You can take a look here.
The hardest part of all! “The last step is so often overlooked: The part where you show up, regularly, consistently and generously, for years and years, to organize and lead and build confidence in the change you seek to make.” Seth Godin I ran into Barbara Brewster again today and after a quick chat, I […]
‘For as long as we’ve been keeping records, human beings have been on alert for the differences that divide us. Then we fixate on those differences, amplifying them, ascribing all sorts of irrelevant behaviours to them. Until, the next thing you know, we start referring to, “those people.” Seth Godin I used to think it was understanding […]
Youth Work Can be Challenging You never really know if what you are doing is making a difference. When my oldest son was in his early teens I worked on a number of youth programs, mostly as a volunteer but partly in paid work. One of the events we developed was a part of National […]
For three years I walked the fine line between Local Government Youth Services and the Christian Church Mission Outreach. The line was so fine that at times it was extremely difficult to balance on. I want to be very clear that the ideals of both these organisations are not in question, but their methodology quite easily […]
I promised you some creative fun, so let’s get started…. I recently spoke about how my imagination was Unleashed after so many years without focus through a course I took with Barb Brewster. One of the great exercises we did in our ‘POP’ Power of Play session was a collaborative story. We did this in […]
Stop doing it…… It sounds pretty simple, too simple really but it can make all the difference. We have a family that live near us. I really wish I could help them out. They have a domestic almost daily, loud enough for the whole neighbourhood to hear. If it isn’t the father and daughter it […]
Christmas is not only a gift giving time of year, for me it marks a prelude to the new year ahead. This is the time of year when I frantically work my butt off until the final few hours of Christmas Eve when the retail sector slows down (that is my day job) and nearly […]
Someone recently read a draft of my first book – Destiny of Kings. He said it was great and that he really enjoyed it. He also said that I should not be afraid to invest some money into developing the book. His advise was very timely because I had been considering doing a short run […]
I subscribe to the ASA (Australian Society of Authors). It is a newsletter sent by an association which has a slant towards traditionally published authors and I have found the evolution of the resent articles very interesting. Recently, there was great resistance to resent government changes which could remove the PIRs (Parallel Importation Restrictions) from […]