Over the years I, scientist turned writer of fiction, have taken to writing blogs, describing my musings, memories, and misgivings. I now publish a selection of these blogs covering the years just prior to the Covid pandemic, the Covid years themselves, and the years we have presumed and hoped are post-Covid.
There are eighty-one blogs so there's something here for everyone. There's the burning of rainforests not to mention the rest of the country. There's the epic - and perhaps eternal - struggle between education and ignorance. There's the spectacle of my life-partner Janet in poses both humorous and sublime.
And here you'll also find the first woman in Australia to die of AIDS, the art of the dedicated conspiracy theorist, the wonderland of the cosmos, the denial of anthropogenic climate change which science tells us is essentially undeniable, the passage of Vladimir Putin and me - in our respective journeys - right by each other like ships in the night, the magic of Japanese food dance and art, the beauty of birds, the road trips forced upon us by the Covid years, the spectre of Artificial Intelligence with its inherent - and potentially dire - problems, and my love of the small coastal village in Queensland where I live. And on it goes.
My pretence of distant and disinterested observer in all of this was rudely interrupted when my partner Janet died accidentally and suddenly. Then I found myself blogging in the depths of despair about my reaction to the most traumatic event a person will experience in their lifetime outside of a war zone.
