This blog began in what we now fondly recall as the high-blogging era; the 2010s.
Back in those heady days, the blog was about anything and everything – thus the name I gave it then, “It Keeps Me Wondering.” Later, I changed the name to “Blathering About Nothing;” a homage to Samuel Beckett & his play, Waiting for Godot. (I still like “It Keeps Me Wondering” though – it’s sort of a personal creed….I wonder if that should be the epitaph on my headstone?)
By 2017, momentum for blogging seemed to be flagging, universally and personally. I was tired of blogging because I felt it was necessary to post regularly, and thinking up and writing light-hearted posts took up most of my limited spare time for being creative. I wanted to try writing in other modes, and for publications other than my own blog.
So there was a gap of some years. Then I started wondering if it was worth starting a newsletter on Substack – as so many others interested in writing and books are doing – or continuing a blog where I’ve already written so much “content”, and already accumulated some of those delightful entities known as “followers.”
Now, I have a fledgling Substack called Here is one – so far with one essay on it. (I only just saw the joke there. It will be the pinnacle of my career as a comedian, if I never write another essay on that site!)
I’ll continue to update this page now & then with bits and pieces that have been published elsewhere. A selection is below.
Memoir/essay
A Journey Around My House (Archetype, 2023)
Learning to Light Fires (Moonee Valley Libraries 2021 “Strange Days” Writing Award – second place)
Breathing Together (Slippage Lit, Dec 2020)
When you see a stranger (Stylus Lit, 2017)
Reviews
You Daughters Of Freedom (book review), Right Now, 2020
Visualising Human Rights (book review), Right Now, 2019
Poetry
golden Not Very Quiet, Issue 3, 2018
Thylacine Talking Writing, 2018
Blathering About Nothing 