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It has been nearly four years since I was last at this site, so I will say "hello" again.-Ron :arrow: ---------------------------- 1. EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL ROLES: 1944-2008 1999-2008-Writer/Poet/Retired Teacher: George Town Tasmania 2002-2005-Program Presenter, City Park Radio, Launceston...

PREAMBLE The following two essays were first written at some time in 2004 about five years after I had retired from full-time employment and just before I retired from PT work and most volunteer activity. By the time I revised these essays on March 25th 2005 I had virtually freed myself from...

REALITY :arrow: History is not just a pile of facts, something dressed up for the movies or a story in a book. It functions as history, has genuine significance for our lives, when these facts live in the present through the meaning they bring to the present, through how they illumine the...

GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER OR GREATER In the two dozen towns I have lived in as a pioneer, for I have felt somewhat like a pioneer, relationships with neighbours form an interesting dimension to the pioneer experience. "Not togetherness, but avoidance and separation," writes sociologist Zygmunt...

DRIFTING: A WIDENING SPECULATION :arrow: Anthony Hopkins, in an interview I watched after a second viewing of the ending of his Silence of the Lambs, said that good actors should not be afraid to beg, borrow or steal ideas, skills, talents or the abilities of others to improve their...