by Garrick | Jun 28, 2019 | The Boys of Bullaroo
What does it feel like seeing your first book fledge and leave the nest? If I can paraphrase a line or two from Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” “And it made me feel excited, Well, excited and scared.” That’s how I felt: reluctant to let go, mainly because...
by Garrick | Jun 28, 2019 | Australia's Son, The Boys of Bullaroo, The Cricketer's Arms, The Seventh of December
The Circle of Friends Life for gay men in Sydney in the 1950s. A personal experience. Caught up in the wake of McCarthyism in the USA, which spread worldwide in the West, anyone considered a non-conformist was punished by censure and marginalisation at...
by Garrick | Jan 13, 2019 | The Seventh of December
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December, 1941, the United States declared war on the Japanese Empire. As a result, and with the expectation that mobilisation and a call to enlist would happen shortly, the powers that be decided...
