-
Join 2,182 other subscribers
Buy Nightmare in Paradise
Irene Waters Writer Facebook Page
Irene Waters Photography
-
-
Recent Posts
- Fly, Road, Rail – A trip north, west, south, east then north again – We head off January 2, 2023
- Happy New Year and another Go. December 25, 2022
- Out and About Where I live: Habitat Noosa 1 March 9, 2022
- Week in Review: Week 9 March 7, 2022
- Time, Memory & Identity (Part 3) + The Sense of an Ending – book Review March 2, 2022
Recent Comments
Irene Waters 19 Writ… on Radio Quiz Kid – My… Kim on Radio Quiz Kid – My… Friday-Flashback-Pre… on Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge:… 
THURSDAY’S SPE… on Over: Thursday’s Special Mind Lab on One Archives
Categories
- 2013
- 5 photos 5 days
- A Lingering Look at Windows
- A Word A Week photo challenge
- A-Z challenge
- Australia
- Awards
- Bird
- Book reviews
- cancer
- Carrot Ranch
- Cee's Black and white Challenge
- Cee's Fun Foto Challenge
- Cee's Odd Ball Challenge
- Cee's Which Way challenge
- Cees Flower of the Day
- creative writing
- cruising
- daily events
- Daily Post prompt and challenges
- Dogs
- Eses Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge
- family
- fiction
- flash fiction
- Floral Friday
- Friday Fictioneers
- Guest posts
- haiku
- Historical Perspective
- irenewaters
- LILO
- Look up Look Down
- Macro Monday
- MBPOTW
- Memoir
- Memoir Monday
- memoir writing
- migration
- musings
- Nightmare in Paradise
- Noosa
- opinion
- Past Challenge
- pets
- Phoneography Challenge
- photo challenges
- photography
- poetry
- road to being published
- Shadows
- Silent Sunday
- Skywatch Friday
- story telling
- Sunday stills: The Next Challenge
- technology
- Three Things Thursday
- Thursday's Special
- Times Past
- travel
- Travel Theme
- Trog and other Animals
- Uncategorized
- Weekend Coffee Share
- weekend funny challenge
- Weekend photo challenge
- Weekly Discover Challenge
- Weekly photo challenge
- weekly smile
- Wordless Wednesday
- Writing
- Writing Challenges
- Zach
Blog Stats
- 194,159 hits
Pages
Irene Waters
Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist
I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
Blogging Challenges Available
Monthly early each month Times Past
Every Weekend Weekend Coffee Share
Sunday: Sunday Stills
Meta
Blogs I Follow
Tag Archives: writing
Weekly Writing Challenge: Fifty
The children hid behind the curtains to see their Mother’s new boyfriend.They watched in horrified silence as the knife came down repeatedly, slicing into their mother’s chest creating a blood red river which ran towards them. Their silence saved them … Continue reading
Alphabetical Emotions: Fear
Finding the right property in the country was proving difficult. This place sounded idyllic. It boasted a creek, populated with platypus, meandering through the property. On reaching Kempsey we headed west following the Macleay River. We dreamed of picnicking by … Continue reading
Alphabetical Emotions: Anger
Hiring the canoes was really the icing on the cake, giving us almost pure profit from the activity. The only outlay was the petrol required to take the canoes and those hiring them to the river. When Roger returned to … Continue reading
Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes (Skulduggery)
Having her back to the street as she concentrated on obeying the ATM’s commands she was unaware of the man behind her until his hand clapped over her mouth preventing the scream that rose in her throat from cutting into … Continue reading
Weekly Writing Challenge: Object: My Grandma’s Hanky
It was in a bag of linen I had taken from my grandmother’s house after her death. I had carried the bag around with me on my numerous moves and never given it more than a cursory look. The day came … Continue reading
Weekly Writing Challenge: Sounds of Silence
We are always aware of the silence when visitors depart but in the normal course of daily events it goes unnoticed. Visitors make us aware that perhaps we are not quite normal. Everyone expresses surprise that we don’t eat breakfast … Continue reading
Weekly Writing Challenge: Valentine Memories
Being a nerdy girl I didn’t attract admirers the way my friends did. In fact I’d only had a couple of boyfriends before I’d reached 19 and was already feeling that spinsterhood was my destiny. I’d also never been to a wine … Continue reading
Daily Prompt: Good Fences?
We moved in over Christmas. That was a shock and a half – the sound of children screaming, people talking, televisions blaring and cars revving. How were we going to survive? We had not had neighbours for twenty years. We … Continue reading
Weekly Writing Challenge: Leave your shoes at the Door
“Watch out” I screamed. Why couldn’t he just watch the road and slow down at roundabouts “For heavens sake Janet. Don’t scream. I thought I was about to kill someone” Jack said. “I didn’t know if you saw that car … Continue reading
Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch posts day 6
Time: 1705 Place Shell Petrol Station Tewantin In queue for petrol. I didn’t think it would be busy at this time but I guess it gives me time to write something as I didn’t have time for lunch today and … Continue reading
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 