by Anne Skyvington | Aug 20, 2023 | Writing Spirit
Several years ago, a young Englishwoman donned a backpack, set out for Australia and rented premises in Bondi; she’d brought the New Kadampa Tradition to Sydney from the United Kingdom. The beautiful Manjushri Temple is in the Conishead Priory near the Lakes...
by Anne Skyvington | Apr 20, 2023 | Guest Post, Travel
A Guest Post on The Art of Creative Writing website, this post written by Roger Britton How it all started We had been hosting Chinese students in our home for several years from our sister school in Jinan. Each one stayed with us for two years at a time attending...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 9, 2023 | Psychology, Writing Topics
Extreme Fear in the Time of Covid The only thing we have to fear is fear itself! The above quotation from an American Second World War time president has become part of history: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. When someone sneezes in America, the whole...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 8, 2023 | Writing Australia
I live in Coogee near the beach with my husband of 47 years. Coogee is located on Sydney’s famous Coastal Walkway, which stretches from Bondi Beach to Maroubra Beach. The Eora people were a vast and complex Indigenous group of family and kin relations who occupied the...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 8, 2023 | Publishing, Writing Topics
Most people who write a book will never get it published; half the writers who are published won’t see a second book in print; and most books published are never reprinted. What’s more, half the titles in any given bookshop won’t sell a single copy there, and most...
