about

Seventy and still

taking the very first steps

to finding my self.

It's never too late:

each step is always the first

from where you are now.

'What I do is me: for that I came', Gerard Manley Hopkins

• 1971–2017 I worked with neurodiverse children and young people in the beautiful Camphill Movement and the ground-breaking Ruskin Mill organisation. 
• 2010 Writing regularly: poetry, flash fiction, short stories, longer fiction...
• 2012 Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction. Since then, long- and short-listed a few times.
• 2017 Masters in Creative Writing & Publishing at West Dean College.
• I'm so lucky to have a daughter and two sons – each way more talented and successful than their father – and two uniquely spirited granddaughters.
• Somehow, I gained and retained a small group of close friends and a partner who are honest with me and continue to put up with me.
• I'm a member of The Christian Community, gaining inspiration and wisdom also from other major religions and spiritual traditions, as well as from science.