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Category: Memoir

The early 1980s: Life in the Inner West

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

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

One cold, windy afternoon I pass a man playing sax on the Sussex-Goulburn street corner and I look down the

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Lost in the highlands

It was in 1978, after a late night start and very little sleep, that a search party set out on

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Figure in a landscape—walking the Tasmanian high country

Solitude and reverence for the mountains experienced on a solo walk along the Overland Track in the Spring of 1980

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To the summit, one last time

It was a grand weekend adventure to climb Mt Anne but, unknown to the climbers, it was to be their

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First jump

It's a long time ago now, it seems, but my first jump went well though my second went a little

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A remarkable book and a remarkable person

Meetings with remarkable people and with remarkable books can leave an influence long after they have gone from your life.

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The white aircraft

The meaning of a large white aircraft remembered from childhood becomes clear decades later...

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Life at Serendipity

It’s a morning ritual. Pick up the surfboard not long after sunrise has paled the eastern sky and descend through

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At home with the working class – temporarily

A story of a temporary but longer than anticipated immersion in working class culture...

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