Sydney School of Arts and Humanities

George Santayana (1905) A personal essay response: There is a building in Surry Hills that caught my attention after many years of walkin...

SSOA members' responses to this week's writing prompt ranged from opinion pieces to addressing the proposition obliquely through fiction....

Sydney School of Arts & Humanities is up & running with a new Saturday meetup for writers ... 2PM on ZOOM. 'Writing with Spirit' is what w...

I TRIED A 3RD TIME TO POST INDIGENOUS MATERIAL ON FACEBOOK AND WAS BLOCKED. THIS MORNING I TWICE ATTEMPTED TO POST AN ARTICLE ON FACEBOOK...

If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any. Donald Trump If we stopped reporting job losses, we’d have very little u...

Yes, I call them ‘suits’. Whenever I see a good-looking guy wearing a suit, it's like Superman to my girlish imagination. There’s somethi...

This week's writing prompt is intended as a mark of respect and solidarity with the family of George Floyd who was killed by police in Mi...

The American coaching organisation, CoachVille, has published a statement in support of all people of color, as the term is used in the U...

London, and specifically Central London, can produce some interesting sights in the fame stakes. One Saturday afternoon I visited a favou...

CORONAVIRUS Nowhere to go With all his usual cafes closed, the writer has nowhere to go – except deeper into those unexplored recesses of...

OUR WRITERS' PROMPT - DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE 'Double, double toil and trouble,' the barista said, making yet another coffee in m...

'Quarantined' is now available as an ebook on Amazon. It tells the daily diary experience of compulsory quarantine for an Australian trav...

Ooh-la-la Easter Monday How fresh the air, how scenic the landscape, how free my spirit feels. Am I lost for words? Almost but not quit...

As one of the travellers from Peru quarantined in a Sydney hotel since March 31 – and due to emerge into the ‘real world’ this coming Mon...

Feeling rather house proud today (or should I say 'fière de ma chambre'?) ... I've easily been able to carry out my simple laundry and wa...

Let me begin today with a joke since they’re scarce these days … A Canadian teacher, a Scottish pilot and a Puerta Rican lawyer walk into...

One week down – one to go! As if by magic, the question I raised in my last blog about what can be learnt about the specific qualities of...

Wasn’t it superb to have a sunny Sunday to relax? Although I couldn’t get out in that sunshine, I was so pleased to see it – and to see o...

4th night - Friday: Plenty of time to contemplate the question of quarantine, detention, compulsory restraint or imprisonment here in thi...

Day 3 - You know how there’s always someone in your life who ‘gets on your goat’? It’s not a situation peculiar to being locked up in det...