by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Mar 30, 2020 | Close to Home
It’s an ‘almost Charles Dickens Day’ in Preston as I walk along the concrete slabs of a footpath: a small dog barks like a starter motor on a cold morning; the bristles of a hedge scrub the sleeve of my jumper and over-hanging fat green leaves touch the top of my...
by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Mar 25, 2020 | Close to Home
“What do you fear, lady?” Aragorn asked. “A cage,” Éowyn said. “To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”* Coming up-hill from the big town, I drive along a street towards our house...
by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Mar 21, 2020 | Close to Home, Uncategorized
An African and an Aussie walk into a hotel to enrol in a course. They’re met in the foyer by a well-dressed lady who shows them to a room with three exit doors. The first door has a sign above it that says, School-Ready Bar, the second door says, Job-Ready Bar...
by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Mar 12, 2020 | Close to Home
It’s just another quiet night out here in the yard. The trees are doing their sentinel silhouette thing, as if they’re waiting for something. The dog is just over there and the stars are burning. I feel the odd one out with my lean towards hurry. Hurry...
by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Mar 6, 2020 | Close to Home
It’s night and I’ve wandered into a big space of glaring white fluorescence with number one daughter. She’s lugged her year-twelve art project here to be left alone with it. But I’m allowed, cause I’m the Dad, looking and wondering at...