My Life
My Story
My ancestors travelled across the world to Australia and Tasmania. This is the part of the story that begins with me.
I was born in Victoria in 1961 and moved to Tasmania as a child. Since then, my life has taken me from Tasmania to Melbourne, across the Pacific to America, around the world and, more than sixty years later, back to Tasmania.
This is not intended to be a traditional autobiography. It is my life told through the people, places, photographs and stories that made it what it was—and those that are still being created.
Victoria — The Beginning
1961–1966
I was born in Carlton, Victoria, in 1961 and spent the first few years of my life in Victoria.
Tasmania — Growing Up
1966–1978
IIn 1966 my family moved to Tasmania, beginning at Table Cape and later living in Somerset and Burnie. These were my school years and the years in which Tasmania became home.
Melbourne — University, Work and Adult Life
1979–2000
In 1979 I left Tasmania for Melbourne to study at Monash University. By the end of 1980 I was working, and Melbourne became home for the next two decades.
America — A New Life
2000–2024
IIn February 2000 I moved to the United States. I married in 2002, and in 2003 my daughter Ashley was born. What began as another move became more than two decades of my life in America.
The World — Retirement and Reinvention
2024–2026
I chose to retire early in 2023. What followed was a period of extraordinary travel and enormous change as I explored the world and began working out what I wanted the next part of my life to look like.
Tasmania — Coming Home
2026-
After decades away, my life has brought me back to Tasmania. I am now settling into a new chapter with Alli in South Hobart, more than sixty years after my family first brought me to the island.