Dear World, Australia is now ripe for the silencing. Like content plump lambs standing in a vast land of plenty, it seems that we have been kicking back forever. Life has been too good and too easy for too long, and many have taken it for granted. Not all of us, of course – I…
Tag: Writing
The Forgotten Songs
… and why we must not let them die – a study and review My connection with the music of a woman in the late 1800s began with a vintage music livestream… But first allow me to provide some background and personal context which long precedes this event. Singing as a volunteer church choir member…
Tim with the Double Chin
Welcome to this tale, dear reader. Now, with the kindest, sweetest inner speaking voice, let us begin… Once upon a time, a man called Tim was conceived. His parents were delighted beyond their imaginations. What joy! What an honour to know that another human being would be born to continue their likeness, their bloodline, their…
Gone But Still Remembered
Did you keep a journal or diary when you were a child or teenager? If not, are you thinking of starting one? It need not be January to start getting your thoughts down on paper, especially in this crazy but significant year we are all living through. The other day I decided to look through…
How not to waste your COVIDays… COVIDaze?
I find myself writing more often for this blog now (hmmm, one wonders why, more time perhaps?). This is not only for creative purposes, mental health and stability, and to escape the dire news pouring out of my radio, television, and Internet screens, but to document what is an extraordinary time in life and history….
Happy First Birthday, MuSinGer!
“Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me-eeeee, happy birthday to me!” On 6 December 2018 I launched this blog, The MuSinger, and while I know that I have not hit the jackpot as far as subscriber numbers go, or followed all of the rules of ‘successful blogging’, whatever that means,…
The MuSinGer 