Owls

The “Storyteller’s Owl Coin” — As a writer of stories, I am always looking for and finding signs, symbols, and meanings to life and living in ordinary things. Yesterday, I was guided to create the idea and design of the “Storyteller’s Owl Coin”. The owl has a number of meanings, in some cultures, it signifies…

He perched calmly in a pine tree as I walked slowly past — It was a foggy morning today and they were bush-hogging the meadow with a tractor, making a racket designed to keep birds away. Still, it's a nice walk.

The “ears” are not actually ears! — The long-eared owl (Asio otus) is a medium-sized owl that is similar in size to the barn owl but slightly smaller than the tawny owl and short-eared owl. Like most owls it is mainly nocturnal, but it also sometimes hunts by day. …

Owl about it… — Seventeen, that was the age I was first published. It was in an anthology of stories regarding body image. Since then I have been published in 2 other books and written for local, national, and international media as well as digital ghost-writing for brands and other people. But if I…

I was out in the back yard the other day, doing the chore of emptying out coffee grounds from the french press , after making and having my lunchtime cuppa, and my attention was led to a Honeyeater of some kind, sounding and acting in an agitated manner. It was…

Owls are not just wisdom, but the announcers of death… — “The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.” — David Mallet. The small bedroom looked rather cosy, but was filled with a strong musky smell that was overbearing. “It’s nearly time,” a son said to his wife and children who were all gathered around a bed. As he held…