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...
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...