Laundry on Life: thoughts on privacy and friendship
It’s Australia Day today. For dinner, I’m cooking Janelle Bloom’s easy carve leg of lamb with lemons and smoked paprika. There’s macaroons for dessert...
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Capture memories while you can
First published in March 2016, I wrote this post after visiting my aunt in a Malaysian nursing home. Several years earlier, I had interviewed her for my father’s book,...
The curious scribbler meets the rug maker
‘Would you like some tea?’ asks Najaf, the rug-maker of Mazar-e-Sharif. I accept his kind offer gratefully as I step into his shop – Afghan Traditional Rugs...
Where is home?
First published on 12 December 2015, I mull on a peculiarity in the life of the migrant: the uncertainty of where home is. I sit in my study in Adelaide, thinking of the...