Miriam Verbeek
Leeches, future-blind, and dogs' noses
We, along the northeast coast of Australia, are enduring the longest, wettest rainfall period since records began. Since the beginning of...
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MIRIAM VERBEEK
Crime fiction and Contemporary Fantasy Author
Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 4, 2022
- 4 min
A tribute to my father, an award and vegetarianism
I’m sitting in a room beside the bed in which my father is slowly dying. I hear silence for a couple of minutes, turn my head wondering...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 4, 2022
- 3 min
A story within a story
In Chapter 16 of Cryptal’s Champion (Book 2 of the “Songs of Si’Empra” series), Pedro reads a story that Ellen’s written. While he’s...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 4, 2022
- 4 min
To get right to the point ...
I guess I’m just naturally curious … or maybe I just like to give my grey cells a workout (though I seriously wonder whether they are...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 4, 2022
- 6 min
Would you really lie back and enjoy being violated
Is that heading a question or a statement? I was well into my early teens before I had any idea of sex. I was more years older before I...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 4, 2022
- 2 min
Exploring more of Australia (July 2021)
The first time I visited my relatives in the Netherlands, I was puzzled when my uncle asked me how I could bear to live in Australia. “It...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 4, 2022
- 1 min
Antarctica and dog's tails (tales)
I n their April news item, the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) highlighted the announcement of a new joint strategy to...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 4, 2022
- 3 min
To write to genre or not
One whole summer holiday when I was about 15, I barely got out of my pyjamas (I remember they were bright yellow and very comfortable!)...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 4, 2022
- 2 min
Of herbicides and running
I decided, a couple of weeks ago, to go for my weekly run on a weekday rather than a weekend. This probably wasn't the smartest decision,...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 17, 2018
- 7 min
Staying uncorrupted: Blog 4 of 4
They are simply not observing their behaviour (automated behaviour), and/or They are not in charge of their behaviour (maybe because of...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 17, 2018
- 7 min
Using disengagement tactics: Blog 3 of 4
second blog of the series, I explained that there are additional things that determine our behaviour: our capabilities for ‘symbolism’,...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jun 21, 2018
- 4 min
Determinants of human functioning: Blog 2 of 4
Symbolising capability – we can think in symbols and we can share symbols. For example, words in a language are symbols (or...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jun 21, 2018
- 4 min
Why people behave the way they do: Blog 1 of 4
There’s a saying you’ve probably heard many times: power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely (attributed to Lord...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Feb 27, 2018
- 5 min
Fact or fiction: Do penguins fall on their backs?
penguins on ice And, more importantly, when does twisting a fact discredit every other fact in the story? There is a lot that I wanted...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 12, 2017
- 2 min
A piece of lace: What mattered then, what matters now
Footnote details:<1> “I’ve learnt” in the process of completing my doctorate "The effects of power on its users", University of New South...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Jul 12, 2017
- 2 min
The idea of beauty
A dictionary definition of beauty goes along the lines of ‘something that gives pleasure to the senses, often sight’. But do a google...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Apr 16, 2017
- 3 min
Catching a taxi in Wuhan, China
I am the only light-skinned, pale-haired, blue-eyed person in the queue. Lots of people keep joining the queue. The queue is a...
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Miriam Verbeek
- Apr 10, 2017
- 2 min
Symbiosis, Skyseekers, Crystalmakers and Cryptals
I’ve been interested in the idea of symbiosis since that sixth class Science lesson when Sister Bonaventure, our Science teacher, took us...
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