Sylvia Petter's Blog, page 4

Of Friends and Places…

I’m late, but a lot’s been going on, and I confess I’ve been hanging out on Twitter and Instagram, as you can see from the bottom of this page. Another… more

The heat’s been getting to me….

The hum in this heat is fat and languid as it falls on my desk making the ink in my pen run away run away away from the hum in… more

Here´s to Roppotucha´s Creatures!

The last weeks and months have been weighing on me health-wise and heart-wise, with the Muse turning up her nose, but who can blame her with all thats been going… more

A Toronto/Waidhofen meandering

Im sitting in the wilds of Waidhofen – that place of John Irving fame when he set free the bears from the Vienna zoo. And so in a weird way… more

Seventy is NOT just a number!

My recent gut reaction to a tweet expressing a sense of not belonging as a writer, be it by birth, nationality, domicile, language, themes, yes, and even cliché usage —I… more

Revamping 2019

2018 was a tough year in many respects, mostly health-wise, but 2019 is looking brighter in some. Christmas visits from Australia by The Possum and her husband, as well as… more

Protest is in the air and on the ground

Ive neglected my blog due to some health niggles and frustration with the political status quo, as well as a spate of rejections, and also accepting the fact that I… more

While I am away…

Ive been putting off blogging because somethings been bugging me, although I have been barking politically on LinkyDing and Twitter. I think it has something to do with shame and… more

Bloomsday Flashing

Saturday, 16 June this year was not only Bloomsday at Shakespeare and Co. Vienna, it also saw spillover crowds from the Vienna Gay Pride Parade and what is known as “National” Flash… more

Easing up a complicated relationship

A fair while ago I gave up on social media, opting out of Linky Ding, Twitter and Fezbuk. Facebook was the hardest to leave but Im over it now, although… more