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My Reading Chair & Writing Desk

Single Poppy
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
April 20, 201810

Red poppies and ethical storytelling

When I worked part-time and mothered full time, my garden suffered. I frequently allowed annuals to go to seed and hoped that they would sow next year’s display. I later...

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rugs from the Middle East
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
January 12, 20182

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...

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Life Skills
December 8, 20170

Acquiescent or assertive

Feature picture by Klein. August 2014, Salisbury Writers Festival, Adelaide For a towering figure of Australian literature, John Marsden is looking rather grey, his leg...

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Rubble of Dr A's home and clinic in Syria
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
February 24, 20170

Creation and Destruction

  After my interview last week with a Syrian refugee, I went to my local library and borrowed all the books I could find on Syria. One of the books I borrowed was The...

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The Curious Scribbler
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
February 10, 20171

The Little Man Counts

Earlier this year, I stopped to read a commemorative board by a sandy footpath leading to Chapman’s Bar at Emerald Bay on Pangkor Laut. I learnt that the bar was named...

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The Curious Scribbler
Book progress update
February 3, 20172

Seeing life through the lens of death

Since moving away in 2001, I have returned to Malaysia and Singapore each year to spend time with family. As the years passed, I have noticed loved ones growing old, often...

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Cloud shrouding the Mountains
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
December 23, 20160

Lord Jim in Borneo

When I began reading Lord Jim, I was pleasantly surprised that Jim was not the Lord of an English manor as I had supposed. Instead, he was a seaman, disgraced by his desertion...

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The Curious Scribbler
My Reading Chair & Writing Desk
March 2, 20160

Capture them while you can

My aunt once told me of her older brother, who had loved her dearly. During World War II, he was taken away by the Japanese and never returned. ‘That day,’ she...

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The Curious Scribbler
Book progress update
January 21, 20160

Iced coffee instead of bush tea

My friend Merrilyn remembers a wonderful Afghan family and has a visual picture of where she parked when she visited them twelve years ago. On hearing that I would like to...

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