My eBooks are out now on Kindle! I mainly write memoir and poetry, and dabble in how-to guides and fiction.
Personal: Nightmares, old writings, and Black Lives Matter
I’m tired. Just turned off my computer again. Lying on my arm-chair. Been a very productive day at home. Just…
Fiction: The slaves arrive
They stumbled out into a red desert landscape, surrounded by silent guards with brown, wrinkled skin and smelling sharply of…
Interviewing musicians for Cookies Youth Magazine
These are two short pieces for my third memoir. It will be about my writing experiments.
Burnout is back and it’s ok
Causes? Who knows? It feels like things built up one after the other. Computers and phones breaking one by one.…
I looked that shy on stage?
Youth Up Front Award Roma Street Parklands June 2003 “… and publishes ‘Cookies’ a street magazine that promotes the ideas…
Selectively mute? Nope
Going Mute for the first time The first time I remember going mute was in 2006. I was twenty four…
“Racism? You don’t care”: you might judge me from my social media
“You don’t care” Institutional racism and how you might judge me from my social media I have been escaping…
Nope: A turning point in my mind
Ten years ago I joined Twitter with the username @KarlettaA.
Knowing myself as strong, valued, and generally liked is (now) often present.
Conversations are easier. Being present is easier. Connecting with and being able to understand others is easier.
I’m back.
My VERY MIS-guided “understandings” about Autism and Aspergers
What do you know about Classic Autism, Aspergers, and Autistic Savants? Turns out I was incredibly mistaken and ill-informed.
I am intelligent, love learning, have an advanced vocabulary, am detail-oriented, creative, caring and compassionate, and enjoy quite a few passions.
I am nothing like what I thought Autism/ Aspies were. Yet I am Autistic.
Political Neglect: Low wages and an atrophied health care system
Yes, our wages are being kept deliberately low. It is impacting our physical and mental health for millions of Australians.
