Be warned. It's coming. The day we love to hate: Valentine's Day. I’m well aware of the fraudulence of its sentiment and the pressure...

When I set out to write a profile of Shirley Burr for a local magazine some time ago I had no notion of the exciting, adventure-packed...

Robert Burns is by some measures the most famous poet in the world. There are more statues of him dotted over the globe than of any other...

It is impossible to overestimate the influence of childhood experiences. I’ve come to realize that so many of the things I’ve done, so...

It was only by pure chance that I happened to be in the country on the day that my mother suddenly died. Shocked and bewildered, I...

These days visitors swarm into Dubai. Many nationalities don’t need a visa to enter the United Arab Emirates and those that do can buy...

The year was 2001. I stood jet-lagged and shivering in the cold English air. Around the corner a driver waited in a car. In twenty...

I know plenty of people who keep a food diary. They’re really serious about it. They record in great detail what they ate, when they ate,...

It was on a drizzly September afternoon in 2015 that I first met Joan Frost. She was soon to turn one hundred years old and I had agreed...

I was born in Australia and grew up on a farm. In childhood I heard and loved the ballads and narrative poetry that was the signature...