I need Allen Liao’s new unlosable glasses! http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/startup/tzukuri-launches-unlosable-glasses-20170309-guuken.html Instead I wrote a story for my grandson with the help of the waterlogue app ( to turn my photos into watercolours.) Where are Nana’s glasses? Are they in the pile of washing that we just took off the line? Are they on the verandah where we… Continue reading Where are Nana’s glasses?
Good Grief! is a space to share experiences of grief. Source: About Good Grief!
“When I was six years old my mother committed suicide because she had leprosy. When I was eight I discovered I also had leprosy,” Chimsi said. In December 2004 my family and I went to Nepal. We had an extraordinary experience but our 16 days was overshadowed by the Asian tsunami, even though Nepal wasn’t… Continue reading Why Nepal still needs our help
Stories of death told with a wry perspective http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes–review-stories-of-death-told-with-a-wry-perspective-20150508-ggwkvb.html Sydney Morning Herald – Spectrum – Book review Margaret Rice May 16, 2015 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematorium Memoir By CAITLIN DOUGHTY Canongate, $27.99 Caitlin Doughty is a guest at Sydney Writers’ Festival, May 18-24.
Yesterday the most alarming news item I subedited was one progressing Colin Barnett’s plan to move Indigenous children off their remote homelands and into regional boarding schools, following up an idea of Noel Pearson. It was part of Barnett’s plan to close down remote communities, something he modified on the hop yesterday with ‘hub and… Continue reading Noel’s great idea is a bad one.
Michael Leunig is more worried than usual at the moment. He believes his role as a cartoonist is to reflect what he sees in the community and he thinks something in the Australian social fabric is just about to combust. “The nature of my work is to get to the heart and the soul and… Continue reading A chat with Leunig
This is a story of bullying by big banks and maybe a fair dose of spite. The incident was only small and the victim openly admits he did something wrong – although he didn’t know it at the time. Joe Panarello has been a cobbler for 36 years and in the last nine or so… Continue reading Meet Joe, bullied by a bank
Birth, death and everything in between 