Jan 27th, 2013
I’m a temperate islander by nature and inclination. I like four seasons and changeable weather, and, though I like the bite of a chilly winter day and the languor of a balmy summer evening, I prefer not to face the extremes of hot or cold. Australia is not a temperate island. When I first came [...]
Jul 30th, 2012
Since I’ve returned to my blog, I’ve started something of a museum of abandoned writing. Started is, admittedly, the wrong word. I’ve been abandoning writing for years. Thesis students obsessively count words: 500, 1,000, 80,000. It is such a process wringing each one out. Yet, just as we gather words up, fritter them away and [...]
May 28th, 2012
I spent a good slice of this morning writing a blog post about my morning run along a local path. It was a post about place and embodiment; two of the big, broad brushstrokes which interest me in my research. I was writing it because I had to stay in and wait for a delivery [...]
May 25th, 2012
It was a warm, cloudless day that demanded some sort of basking. My friend picked me up in the village and we drove out across the valley, up to moor and farm land; lonely places high in hills pocked with reservoirs. We walked for three hours. We climbed up where the wind had blasted the [...]
