From the Book of Criminogenesis
October 25, 2024In my new novel, Judge Rosa Somberly, which plays (havoc) with the concept of justice, there’s a thief and urban explorer called Chaz who is…
Zizzy Stories and Blogs
A SINCERE APOLOGY
October 16, 2024A SINCERE APOLOGY My dear Readers, Some of you will be asking: “Who, in the name of the Great Goddess, is Judge Rosa Somberly?” “Shouldn’t…
JUDGE ROSA SOMBERLY LAUNCHED
September 20, 2024Judge Rosa Somberly was officially launched in Canberra last Wednesday before a crowd of friends, supporters and book-reading humans to hear Laura Nuttall’s response to…
Tarin Kot
February 14, 2024Tarin Kot We follow a whorl of valley, where valleys convene giant thumbprints of hard ridges, towns and green-zones, tickled with poppy fields trickled by…
CYCLONE NOEL
December 6, 2023The TV went whoop whoop whoop, and Ben (6) and Hillary (10) watched Mum and Dad stop chewing their dinner, mouths still full of…
SWARM
June 19, 2023I’m singing an old song in American – give me land lots of land, and starry skies above – taught years ago by a US Army staff…
WAR SLANG
April 25, 2023THE SOLDIERS’ WAR SLANG DICTIONARY “Genius named them as I live! But what genius could compress, In a title what man’s humor said to man’s…
GORILLAS OF BWINDI
December 2, 2022A silverback gorilla announced itself by thrashing around in a bush, and while we couldn’t see the Big Boy we watched one of the local…
EYESHINE
June 19, 2022Reflection of strong light on the back of the retina picks up the shine of the eyeball. Hold a torch close to your head and…
Field Notes from the 2022 Campaign
May 10, 2022Wow, isn’t there some overblown criticism about the CH9 election debate around. Check the huffing, puffing Canberra Times editorial above. Debates test policy, character and…