From Retirement to Authorship

Welcome to the website of author Gwen Wilson, aka blogger Garrulous Gwendoline The Reluctant Retiree…

With a few twists and turns along the way, life after forced retirement chose to reinvent me as an author.

Explore this website to learn more about me, my memoir I Belong to No One, and my debut historical novel, Louisa.

Or simply enjoy my blog posts, an eclectic mix of exhilarating travel adventures and random philosophical musings.

  • Unveiling ‘Shifting Sands’: A SeaQuills Anthology

    There is so much going on in my life that my blog has been neglected. It is not that I don’t think of what I’d like to write. It is just I haven’t worked out how my brain can type the page without any intervention from me. I’m not sure if I have previously mentioned…

  • Celebrating 100 Years: Society of Women Writers NSW

    2025 is the Centenary Year for Society of Women Writers NSW of whom I have been a member for a mere eight years. Celebrations culminated with a lunch in the NSW Parliament House. There is much to tell of that day. Too much for one blog post, so I will treat this first as a…

  • A Day in San Antonio: Riverwalk Adventures

    TUESDAY 6TH MAY 2025 Our Amtrak train attendant woke us about half an hour before our San Antonio arrival. Bill and I had slept together on the bottom bunk of our bedroom compartment. Although snug, it’s roomy enough for two, but, as usual when having an early call on your mind, it had been hard…