I was born in 1946 and lived in rural Wedderburn and Dandenong until the 1960s. After studying chemistry I did some acting, then travelled to SE Asia and war. I came back disturbed, the 60s were heady times. Sanity regained I married Jacqui, had two kids and worked in a family business. Two houses later we moved to Northern Rivers, NSW, where I worked in construction. Marriage failure and single parenting lead me to blissful Bermagui to work in this southern NSW fishing village. I was licensee of the local liquor store, after studying wine marketing at Adelaid University and twenty years after that I had another marriage failure and took to other matters. We, me, my two daughters, and Teejay still live there in peace and beauty.

After studying civil engineering at nearby Canberra, I worked in the environment to make our world a better place.

That was then, this is now. After a lot of life experiments, like travel to North America, I settled into a life with Rose, a heart attack finished that. I decided I wanted to live so I changed my diet, substance abuse habits, and exercise routines. 

I got bored so I decided to do an arts degree with Open Universities Australia (OUA) as well as living a single person's life. I had a couple of health issues like prostate cancer and a journey with vestibular neuritis, I had no sense of balance at all for a period, scary but I enjoyed the prescribed steroid treatment, I got my balance back.

I now live in a cabin on a farm near Central Tilba, a National Trust village, where I do a bit of gardening, look after the chooks, bees, and the farm dog and cat. Life is good, I have finished my arts degree and intend to go to China to learn something about medicinal mushrooms, then write a book on the health benefits of medicinal mushrooms for older people. These fungi have been an element of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for thousands of years and one variety, Turkeytail (Trametes versicolor) helped me heaps through cancer treatment.. On St Valentines Day 2026 I turn 80, I start my ninth decade. This part of my journey will be blogged regularly on this site.