Andrew James Whalan

The Queen’s Birthday long weekend 2011, I flew up to Brisbane to see my sons and hopefully my daughter. All went well, arrived on time, picked up the rental car and found the accommodation. Until I arrived at the accommodation…   But there was a problem. The B&B had no record of my booking (and […]

During one unfortunate argument I was told it’s easier for you to express yourself, you know so many words. Is it really easier to say what you mean with a large vocabulary? Nothing could be more untruthful. Knowing many words is the same as knowing only a few words: the frustration is still finding the […]

Now that I have reached a certain age and perhaps even attained some maturity, I am finally gaining insights. One of those insights is why I write the way that I write! I write auditorially:  I choose words by their sound. If I cannot hear that word in my head, it cannot be written. And […]