Things I never said or did
It’s been almost thirty five years to the day since you left us. Eighteen or so months more since a civil word passed between you and I and the time…
Just For the Fun of it
Around the time of the second Iraq War, I started jamming on a Sunday afternoon with a local Ararat musician, Darren Sherwell. It started out as a bit of fun.…
Thoughts About The Melbourne Free Assange Rally
” I thought that there would be more people here,” said an elderly lady. I agreed. True, in the end there may have been between 300 and 500 people gathered…
Incandescent Rage
Caitlin Johnstone’s epic piece on Cardinal George Pell is remarkable in many ways. However, for me, it hammered home some truths that I have only dared skate across in moments…
Friendship and Sunshine
How do you measure friendship? Who can you count on? Genuine friends are hard to find – here’s a description of a man I’m proud to call my friend. Above:…
Getting the cuts
I attended an all boys school in Geelong. It was catholic. The culture was toxic on many levels. Getting the cuts was being strapped on the hand by a heavy…
Postcards from Hell
When is the right time to change? I nearly left it too late. This was kind of confronting to write. Its not easy to fess up to being as low…
When Winning Isn’t Everything
I wrote this when I was President of Grampians Hockey back in 2005. I read it out at the presentation night and then filed it away somewhere. Grampians Hockey has…
Collateral Damage
This was hard to write. But I feel better for having done it. This is for hundreds of people but in particular the following -Ralph Steiner who knew there…
Regrets
This story is not a work of fiction – its what I remember to be true. It first appeared in a charming little magazine called Morbid Curiosity under the title…