Last month I spent quite a bit of time off island waiting for my 2nd grandchild & 1st grand~daughter to arrive ~ which she finally did...

Minjerribah means *Island in the sun * & it has been Brisbane's playground for 100 years. It is beautiful ~ but it has this odd little...

My mother wanted readers ~ & readers she got. It was nothing for me to read my way through a dozen books a week. I read...

Some people feel the rain — others just get wet. ~Roger Miller We know we are islanders because we think in terms of tides & boats, of...

What greater gift than the love of a cat ~ Charles Dickens. I have been adored by cats for all of my life. The feeling is mutual. Our...

“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.” ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars Thirty years ago there were paddocks of...