At first we laughed at ourselves. The way people looked disapprovingly at a bulging shopping bag. The moral agony about whether to take the last tin of kidney beans. The jokes about toilet paper. None of it was real for me until the day the airlines said they were cancelling all international flights.
The Hidden Diary
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Iso-weight
May 2020 The email notification startles me. It is from Virgin Airlines. Get ready to fly soon. When I click into the notification, Virgin—an airline that has entered voluntary administration—tells me that my direct flight to Tasmania has been changed to three separate flights spread over eight hours. I will be flying from Brisbane to Sydney, then from Sydney to Melbourne, then, after quite a wait, from Melbourne to Hobart. The problem is I thought I had cancelled the flight. We are still in lockdown. Borders are closed, travel is restricted to within 50 kilometres. After a long and complicated call to […]
Wishing for Wontons
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The Climb of a Lifetime
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Again and Again Whom We Love
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The Stargazer
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Mama’s Boy
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Unpacking Home: Thoughts of a Displaced Traveller
I’ve worked as a teacher of English as a foreign and second language for many years and know how to teach the difference between the word ‘house’ and the word ‘home’. I teach that the former is a structure made from concrete or bricks, mortar or wood, while home is a conceptual idea of place and belonging.
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My GP thought I might be pregnant but said that my hormone level was too low for my dates. At the ultrasound I told the sonographer I was seven weeks pregnant.
‘You can’t be,’ she said, using her head to point at the screen. There was a black-and-white pattern, a snowstorm, and somewhere to the side a black hole. ‘It’s just a gestational sac; there’s no heartbeat.’
Still Bisexual
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Sage Tea, Spices and Spaces
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