From Retirement to Authorship

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

Being forced into retirement in 2012 way before I was ready inspired my blog moniker, and I am now too attached to it to let it go.

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

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

Or simply enjoy my blog posts, an eclectic mix of exhilarating travel adventures and random philosophical musings. These are broken into categories elsewhere on this site for easy reference.

And be sure to watch out for my upcoming historical novel, Louisa. She’s due for publication in the second half of 2025.

  • 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…