I’m an Australian writer and cultural magpie… into eco-politics, pop-culture, books, film, gardening, meditation, music, art, ideas.
I’ve got lots of free previously published work to read or download at my old website at www.bethspencer.com , including from my books How to Conceive of a Girl (fiction, Random House) and Things in a Glass Box (poetry, FIP) and various pieces published in journals, the Age newspaper and on ABC Radio National over the years.
You can also read an extract from a novel I’ve been tinkering with for many years at www.theartofpeacefulhealing.com . Look at a sample version of a CD-ROM/CD set produced as a teaching resource at Dogmedia. Or check out more this-and-that at my previous blog, www.vandelicious.com .
I also practice as an EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique, or Meridian Tapping) coach, and have another website (and information about this as well as health-and-healing type stuff) at www.feelingdelicious.com & a Feeling Delicious facebook page.
Not sure where I’ll be going with this blog.. at this stage it’s an experiment. Apart from anything else, I’d like to have more of a conversation than has happened with just having a website.
Love getting feedback… so feel free to leave a comment or use the contact form to get in touch directly.
I’ve also recently ventured into Twitter… and you can follow me at @bethspen or @feelingdel.
Hope you find something to enjoy. Look forward to hearing from you.
Beth
 
Hi Beth
Just read your piece about Godfrey P Philipp – he was my late husband’s cousin and we lost touch with him after his beloved step-mother Hilda Philipp died in 2004. He seemed to disappear – he was devoted to her and her death hit him very hard. I only have one photo to hand at the moment but I’m searching the other photos I have to see if I can find more.
I have been researching the family tree and that’s why I used Bing the search engine to see if anyone had any knowledge or whereabouts of him. That’s when I found your blog. It has closed a chapter in our family history. We had wondered where he had been living – now all is revealed. Thank you.
Corinne Muggeridge
Dear Corinne,
I am so sorry if I haven’t already replied to your comment elsewhere. This one must have slipped under the radar. Thanks so much for sharing. And I’m so glad that you were able to find your way to my piece on Godfrey and Adventure Island (http://bethspencer.com/blog/2011/06/godfrey-philipp-adventure-island/) and know that he is still and always will be greatly beloved by so many Australians for his contribution. If you do find some photos and would like to share them — or any information or personal memories of Godfrey — at the
Adventure Island and Magic Circle Club facebook page, (http://www.facebook.com/AdventureIslandandMCC) it would be fabulous to have them. Warm wishes to you, and to your family. xBeth