One of my short memoirs of travelling in Southern Africa has been turned into a podcast by BYU’s (Brigham Young University) Undergrad Podcast Lab, “Journeys” is a podcast that tells stories of travel and the people who have been shaped by it. Each episode features a reading of a personal essay about travel, and a discussion with the author about how travel led them to growth, discovery, or transformation. Click here or on the image. The piece is about travelling to Salisbur

The back garden The tadpoles in the garden Are turning into frogs The sun is shining It’s too hot for dogs The fruit trees are blooming The country it is parched Who could believe it? It’s still only March The sky is a deep blue They’re swimming in the sea People wearing shorts And sipping cream tea The weather is delightful The sunshine is so hot I gotta put a hat on Before I lose the plot It’s hotter than Venice It’s hotter than Spain The headlines in the p

I've been collecting some of my short stories together and here are the first four - just click on the image

My new short story PSSSST is here. Find out what is driving Song down the back alleys of downtown China. Click on the image to go to my website or just click here. REVIEW: A great read! with just the right amount of build-up and anticipation until it smacks you with that curve-ball! And I am sure that many can relate to it as well! #PSSSST #Shortstory #Shortstory #China #Writer #amwriting #Author

I've had a my short story The Storyteller published in an new anthology that's out now on Amazon. Transcendence: An Anthology of Human Thought. There's a whole bunch of good writing, stories, poems and so on for you to read. The Amazon.com link is embedded in the image - just click on it. #Anthology #Amwriting #Writing

So, I got canned from my job of six years in a High School at the end of January. Today is the first day since then I feel I can sit back, relax and reflect a little. Life was going swimmingly. I had recently got married in August 2018 after enjoying a somewhat sweaty holiday in Japan. Teaching started as usual in September, and as I had a contract with my employer until July 2020, life was good. Christmas came and went and then the snows came. Maybe the first indication of

So, online teaching it's great isn't it? Everyone wants to do it. There's a great buzz. Let's all be digital nomads sitting on a beach with our laptops grinning inanely at the screen while our sun bleached hair flops in our eyes... The reality is I'm a month in. Yes, I've got students and I'm keeping busy. Too busy. No one tells you of the time you have to put in creating custom classes for every individual. How much time you actually spend on admin. Answering emails. It's ne