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When my dad retired from his job as a high school science and IT teacher, he’d been a teacher for about twenty-five years. He was a good teacher. Thoug…
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May 8CommentShare
Last week some time I dreamt that Dominic and I were ‘taking care’ of the Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. In this dream, the great writer had been duped o…
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Apr 6CommentShare
A tube arrived in the mail the other day. I hoped it would be something colourful sent by a friend with artistic merit, but instead—I opened it and hoo…
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Dec 10, 2020Comment 1Share
Last night’s dream: It’s a global pandemic. An actual mysterious fast-acting, fast-killing illness. In this pandemic, there is more mucus more blood mo…
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Nov 19, 2020Comment 4Share
What speaks to us, seemingly, is always the big event, the untoward, the extra-ordinary: the front-page splash, the banner headlines. Railway trains on…
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Jun 22, 2020CommentShare
Today I was a part of Arts House’s Makeshift Digital Gathering. A zoom thing. 75 participants, four presenters, and a host - the brilliant Mish Grigor.…
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Jun 11, 2020CommentShare
Grim entries from my diaries, aged 25, 2013.
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Jun 3, 2020Comment 1Share
Just now, just twenty minutes before I sat down to write to you, I found a twenty dollar note on the street. I saw the red note, just there, stupid, na…
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May 27, 2020CommentShare
Being a person with highly specific needs, or even minor needs, can be exhausting. Not only for the people around you, who may have ‘ideas’ about what …
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May 18, 2020CommentShare
'Bowls'
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May 9, 2020CommentShare
In the nineteen nineties, when I was a child and had no autonomy over my food choices, it was very edgy for white, Anglo people my father’s age to say,…
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Apr 29, 2020CommentShare
Probably it is just a feeling of listlessness. A not uncommon pandemic feeling. I have not been bedridden, not anhedonic nor alcoholic nor anorectic; I…
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Apr 22, 2020Comment 1Share
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