Everything one woman took on a 500-mile, 35-day walk — Five years ago almost exactly, I set off on the Camino de Santiago. For the next five weeks, I walked an average of 25 kilometres (15.5 miles) every day — through rain, mist, heat, shin splints, back pain and blisters. The contents of the small backpack I carried, whenever I…

Get to know your fellow writer — I’m coming a bit late to the Inside the Writers Studio Challenge compiled by the wonderful Charlie Cole. Charlie invited us to answer her fun questionnaire around three weeks ago. Well, I’m a little late to the game but I loooove answering questionnaires so I couldn’t pass this one by. …

The art of article-writing procrastination by responding to fun writing prompts — I love answering questions, so when I came across 20 Questions for Medium Writers by Roz Warren, Writing Coach, I was excited to play along. So, without further ado, here are my answers to Roz’s 20 questions for Medium writers. 1. How long have you been on Medium? I created an account back in 2015 but I didn’t…

Hosting a radio program was the greatest night of my life — The story of my first on-air experience 1:55 am, 12 January 2014. I was so full of adrenaline my body shut down to everything except the microphone, clock and console in front of me. In five minutes, for the first time in my life, I’d be live on the radio. And if you think nobody’s listening at…

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are here too — I didn’t get tickets to Bruce Springsteen’s Barcelona concert — they were sold out. I checked every concert venue in Europe — they were all sold out. And very expensive. Despite that, it was cool knowing I was in the same city as the Boss. On Friday after work, I…

Hash Brown and the Blues All Stars — Last night I experienced another Barcelona music treat when I saw Hash Brown and the Blues All Stars play at the L’Hospitalet de Llobregat Festes de Primavera (spring festival). …

My ideas are better than ChatGPT’s — Happy World Book Day, my writerly friends! So, let’s talk books — our books. In 2017, I published my debut novel, With the Music. It’s a good book — I know this because people told me — but sales figures are lacklustre outside a few niche circles. …

The Wild Ones, Wild Thing and the Troggs — In the mid-1960s, American singer-songwriter, Chip Taylor, wrote a thumpin’ tune called “Wild Thing.” In April 1966, the English group, the Troggs, released a version of “Wild Thing” that spent eight weeks in the top 10 and became a garage rock standard. …

Jesus may have wept for the Weeping Woman, but I didn’t — When I was 11, an ugly painting was stolen from Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). That painting was Pablo Picasso’s Weeping Woman and the news of its theft was all over town like elephant’s diarrhea. …