Midweek Moment #35

Midweek Moment #35

Last Friday was the opening of my friend, Mia Laing’s, art exhibition. She’s exhibiting her paintings along with two other artists, Jan Brown and Alicia Gorey. Mia and I did a parenting course together when our eldest children were in early primary school. We...
Snapshot Poetry #9—A Poem and A Painting

Snapshot Poetry #9—A Poem and A Painting

Instead of my usual blog, today’s post is a poem by a young Perth writer—my son, Sam*. I loved this poem about the Swan River. I loved the sense of darkness that pervades it—the clouds, the ‘looming’ city, the shadows, the houses trapping the river,...