In the new light of 5:20 a.m., I strode toward the Sunrise Shopping Centre and its red metal Australia Post box to mail a pair of letters to Canada. Milky-blue, cumulus clouds billowed high to the s...
After two weeks and many nights of lengthy rest since my surgery, I reverted to rising at 5 a.m. this morning to greet the day before being embraced by Townsville’s stalking, sultry heat. For my...
In early afternoon, I walked in the rain, thunder rumbling from within dense, pale cloud above. Schoolboys cycled furiously past me, squinting against the slanting downpour that covered the parkway pa...
Bird song from the Rosslea streets was like musack filtering into our rental house, my mind subconsciously identifying the instruments in the avian orchestra. Even less focussed than yesterday due to ...