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The art of food
In response to a challenge from The Daily Post’s Weekly Writing Challenge to “detail a three to five step story or process, and illustrate each of the steps with something visual”. When I took up...
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“Peace is Possible”
At Bloggers for Peace, the Monthly Peace Challenge: Mad Men is to create something that conveys the message of peace: an ad, a slogan, a short film, a poem, a song perhaps. My modest contribution is...
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Living in Tomorrowland
I have a long time to work before I could consider retirement—around 20 years—and I probably won’t be able to afford to retire then anyway. I’ve always hated the word “retirement”, and thought it would...
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The sound of music
This post is in response to A Word in Your Ear’s Word A Week Challenge—Music “The Musician”, pastel painting of Vorn Doolette, by Caron Eastgate Dann I once interviewed one of Australia’s most...
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Back to Burma
Reblogged from Steve McCurry's Blog: This is Burma, and it is unlike any land you know about. Rudyard Kipling, Letters from the East (1898) Burma is referred to as Amarapura, the Land of Immortality,...
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Recreationist Theory
This post is written in response to Kozo’s monthly peace challenge at everyday gurus When I was about 10 and living in Los Angeles, my parents took me and my brother to Arizona to see the Grand...
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Thailand: kaleidoscope of patterns
Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok Like Sara Rosso at The Daily Post, I am always inspired by the colourful, highly detailed and often surprising patterns of Thailand. This is the subject of my entry in The...
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About-face
This post is part of A Word A Week Challenge: Face, run by A Word In Your Ear. Akha hilltribe woman, Doi Suthep, Thailand, 1991, by © Caron Eastgate Dann, 2011. Acrylics on canvas board. I met and...
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Light of my life
Do you have a possession that has been with you a long time and that you’d never part with? Mine is, surprisingly perhaps, this replica French art deco lamp. I bought it when I moved to Australia as a...
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Old Gadgets
It’s strange to think that something that was made as recently as 2000 could now be a relic of the past, a strange reminder of technology most of us no longer use. I teach media studies and...
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Peacetime at home
Even if you can’t afford a trip to a beach like this at Phuket, Thailand, you can still take a vacation at home. Painting in PanPastels on board, ©Caron Eastgate Dann, 2012. This post is written in...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic
Although New Zealand is still the only citizenship I hold, I haven’t lived there since the late 1980s. In fact, I have spent more of my life outside NZ than in it. However, I still feel very much a...
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My Secret Island
When I was eight or nine, my favourite book was Five on a Treasure Island, the first in the Famous Five series, by the British writer Enid Blyton. It was already an old book, and quite dated, by then,...
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The Colour of the Mountains
My water colour painting of a scene early along the Rocky Mountaineer train journey from Vancouver to Banff. ©Caron Eastgate Dann 2013 I used to take photos constantly as I travelled. I worked as a...
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Painting Canada
My painting from a photo taken during the Rocky Mountaineer journey, Vancouver-Kamloops leg. PanPastels on treated board. ©Caron Eastgate Dann 2013 How does one do justice to the majestic beauty of...
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The first book I bought
The first hardback book I remember buying myself was A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, for the princely sum of $3.25 in 1975. I remember seeing this book in the window display of a...
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The Steampunk Capital of the World: who would have thought?
Steampunk HQ in Oamaru’s Victorian precinct.Picture ©Caron Eastgate Dann 2013 There was a surprise waiting for me on my recent trip to Oamaru, a coastal town of 13,350 people in North Otago on New...
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The World’s Most Romantic Present
Of these three, which do you think would make the most romantic gift? The French perfume, the diamond and Burmese ruby ring, or the pencil sharpener? Yes, you’re right: the correct answer is…the pencil...
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Don’t get mad…
Ever heard the missive “Don’t get mad, get even”? I agree with the first half of this statement, because getting mad serves no positive purpose at all. When you get angry, your stress levels go way up,...
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The secrets of great cooking
Timing is the most essential element of successful cooking, according to my husband, Gordon, and I agree with him. But there’s another: ingredients. What to cook, what to combine, how to make something...
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