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Total Freedom
"It was pretty soon after I started writing about my travels—and I mean in a ratty journal and not for publication—that I became interested in how the word “discovery” is used."Issue 46
Moments of Magic
"I guess it’s quite a traditional approach, in that there’s a lot of planning and preparation. However, I view each stage as important, not just the final painted work."Issue 46
This Morn
This morning, I was six minutes late to launch the boat and pick up the black bream nets. The phone rang on the last stretch to the boat ramp, and I ignored it because I knew it was Old Salt hurrying me up.Issue 46
Surveying the Australian Literary Landscape
The pioneers, veterans, and newcomers of Creative Nonfiction in AustraliaIssue 46
WRITER AT WORK
"One of my elderly patients, Valeria, has been coming to see me twice a week for the past 10 years."Issue 46
Over the Moon: Our Waning Love Affair with Science
"My first two radio assignments were in delicious contrast."Issue 46
Writing an Obituary in a Hot Climate
"This is a long list. Let’s start with my mother. Why did she run away with that teenager?"Issue 46
Strong Loyalties
"Fairy bread! Hundreds and thousands! These are foods that deserve their own treatment."Issue 46
After the Flood on Harte Street
From the driveway, the view was brown. It didn’t matter where I looked: the picket fence, the long wooden steps up to the first floor of the timber house, the concrete slab in the built-in garage, the wheel barrow full of photos.Issue 46
Arms of the Earth
My first dugout in the opal mining town of Coober Pedy, where I lived from 1989 to 1991,was not cut deeply into the sandstone rock, and that was its drawback; I couldn’t hide far enough in, either from the light as it streamed through the kitchen windows set at counter level or from visitors when they happened to knock at the door.Issue 46