The Power or the Glory
The two women I met this week, one on a dairy farm three hours west of Melbourne, another on a sheep farm two hours north, sought neither power nor glory … Continue reading
August 9, 2013 · 6 Comments
Dream Wheeler
“She had a dream…and she made it happen.” I met Jane Lambert in London twenty years ago, when she was in her mid sixties and I was in my early … Continue reading
June 5, 2013 · 27 Comments
Picture of Happiness
It rained in Broken Hill yesterday, an English rain of low cloud, persistent drizzle and occasional heavy downpours. Wet leaves floated past, collecting in soggy piles and clogging the drains. … Continue reading
May 24, 2013 · 12 Comments
Strawberries in the Desert 