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Category: Memoir

Same but different

In the bright light of an early afternoon in the summer of 1970 I stood atop that long flight of

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Two families, two lives… so similar but so different

HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT for the different way that life turns out for people, even when they share much in

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Solitary, long ago

Story & photos: Russ Grayson IT’S PERVERSE, REALLY. To walk  these mountains you start by descending rather than climbing.

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A tale of sad liaisons on the high seas

I remember Pierre well but I’m not sure that his memory of me is as sharp. I got this impression

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An excursion into shared memory… a house, a mystery package and a……

Discussions of the past raise questions about memory... is it unique or can it be a reconstructed reality? A mystery

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Like faces at a window

It is now 1970 and now, at 168 Cathedral Street, people were to come and go through the year, however

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A decade turns

It is almost 1970 and this is Sydney. Focused on the present moment, we afford too little thought to the

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Partings

For most, it was the last experience of communal life before long term partnerships (or a succession of longer-term relationships

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On Kerouac, Hemingway and a literary friend

First published in 2008. IF YOU HAVE TIME TO HANG AROUND, I’ll tell you a little story about literature and

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Misadventure on the way to the Walls

Tasmania, some time in the 1970s. CLAAAANG! Someone slams the car door and the party sets off into the early

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