Ann Goodwin
Ann has published sailing stories in community newspapers, the Royals magazine and the Bluebirds newsletter. She began to write the sailing memoir when she joined a "Mentoring your memoir" class at the Council of Adult Education, Melbourne in February 2013. Other class participants were writing a family history but Ann wanted to write about her sailing life.
Since completing the sailing memoir, Ann has been undertaking research into the travels of her great grandmother, Jane Elder from England to Melbourne in 1849, and from Stawell to Arrowtown, New Zealand in 1883. Ann has begun to write the early chapters of a biographical novel about this adventurous ancestor, who journeyed with two small children on a sailing ship to arrive in Victoria.
Life in, and connection to, Hobsons Bay
Ann has resided in Altona since 1975 after she arrived with her husband from New Zealand, on a work assignment with the petro-chemical industry. After their two children had settled into Seaholme primary school, Ann concentrated on developing her private physiotherapy practice in Altona. In 1989, Ann sold the practice and went to work as a women's health physiotherapist with two large public hospitals and two western suburbs community health centres. In 2000, she returned to rooms in Williamstown to re-establish her physiotherapy practice and continued to work part-time from rooms in Altona until December 2011.
Works
Academic
- Masters thesis (research) in women's health- "Body image and exercise during pregnancy", University of Melbourne, 1998.
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetric and Gynaecology, 2000
Journal of Primary Health Interchange, 2000
Sailing
- Royals magazine, Royal Yacht Club of Victoria , 2007; 2012
- Bluebird Yacht Association of Victoria newsletters, 2009-2011
- Point Cook community newspaper, 2010-11; Around Altona 2011; April 2015
- "Going About" self published on http://www.blurb.com/b/5948798-going-about; 2015
Awards
Letter of the week: "At full sail" published 'Age-Sunday Life'; August 5, 2007.