IN BETWEEN is the question I am confronted with today. What happened in-between my last post and this one? Did I go through one of those interesting experiences that writers, especially the writer’s block experience? Not at all. I was busy editing my memoir for possible publication. I then realized that I have been writing from a very biased perspective, especially one with so much pain, expectations, and angst. I was feeling a lot of pain for a broken childhood and life of poverty and violence in my growing up years. It took me 55 years to come to terms with the reality. Flipping those years back on their head showed me another dimension of my life. One that has so much compassion, forgiveness, and deep appreciation of the family and the life we lived. A lot were glossed and buried deep within the lived memory. I looked again more consciously with an eye for the unturned stone, the unturned leaf. I asked myself what I may have missed as a result of loo
Chronicles the stories of education, books, writing, and reading in the life of Steven Edmund Winduo, PNG writer extraordinaire, literacy advocate, social literary activist, literary scholar, & teacher. Fern Ridge is a translation of Safla Rama, where home is for SEW.