Jenny Schwartz

Category: Of interest

  • Politics in a Romance Novel?

    Romance novels aren’t generally the place for political discussions. After all, the guaranteed happy ever after is seldom what we get from our politicians 🙂 More seriously, discussing politics usually ends by annoying someone, if not everyone, and frankly that doesn’t seem worth the hassle. I save my political opinions to share with the car…

  • Medium, the new social medium

    Medium is one of the new social media that I’ve been interested in for a while, and yesterday, I received an invitation to post there. Yay! If you haven’t heard of Medium, this is its explanation. And this is my page. The potential for conversation and collaboration on ideas is so promising that I’m excited.

  • Art Gallery of WA – State Art Collection

    Sometimes life holds some joyous surprises. I wandered into Perth on the weekend and ended up visiting the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Since I can never work out who holds what copyright, I’ll share an old photo of the gardens outside it, rather than the artworks inside — which is a shame because the…

  • Freo Photos

    It was blowing a gale, but ever intrepid in pursuit of running-away-from-current-manuscript, I ventured out to snap some photos of Fremantle mid-week. Above is Bathers Beach. So is below. And the very last snap is just a back gate … just to prove Fremantle is more than gorgeous beaches 🙂 Thanks to Sonya Heaney for…

  • Thinking of heroes

    Over the weekend I was reading The Guardian Weekly. An article caught my eye. Now, I try to keep off the topic off politics online. So, although the article by George Monbiot is “Ultra-rich suffer from bad case of Romnesia” I don’t actually want to talk about its social critique as such. You are free…