How to buy stamps

July 31, 2011 Memoir

Buying stamps on Sydney's lower North shore had never been so cheap... even if you did have to stay watchful...

First brush with poverty

July 31, 2011 Memoir

For us, it was our first brush with poverty...

Byron Bay: Discovered and rediscovered

July 31, 2011 Nomadics

Some places are special and they stay in mind as a mental image that you recall later. Doing this has little to do with logic and more to…

To the island

July 31, 2011 Memoir

A day on shark island...it must have been around 1970

The early 1980s: Life in the Inner West

July 27, 2011 Memoir

Life in an inner urban share house at the opening of the decade of the 1980s was interesting, busy and directionless...

Farewell, Bob, and thanks for a life that touched so many

June 19, 2011 Memoir

One cold, windy afternoon I pass a man playing sax on the Sussex-Goulburn street corner and I look down the road to an old building that I once…