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Refuge
EMRE ALWAYS RISES at five. His palliasse has to be slid beneath the couch so that Frau Losberg might...
Dinner with my brother
WENT TO MY brother's new town house for dinner last night. Bro cooked up a fine dinner – sweet...
Invisible moon
SHE STANDS AT the window, dropped into a jet-lagged dream. The street below is covered in snow. She knows...
Like mother, like son
WE NEVER LIKE to think about the fact, but history repeats itself. Well, often it does: I am now...
At home in both places
I STILL CALL Australia home. But I have another home in Italy. Virtual bilocation is my thing rather than...
Small stories of the planet
COULD IT BE true? Had we just made the first ever Halal Irish stew?The lamb's slaughterer could not have...
The gift of tongues
LANGUAGE AND PLACE no longer define us as simply as they once did. We can slip and slide between...
Two wives in Krakow and a house in Treptow
IN 1989,WHILE on a visit to Poland, I was introduced to Piotr (Peter) Skrzynecki, the famous cabaret and artistic...
The broom closet
IT'S LIKE THIS. Your baby is howling just as loud as the never-ending stream of stinking road-trains, and Jemimah's...
Sensual degrees of separation
Q: Mum, how can you tell when politicians are lying?A: Their lips are moving, sweetheart.I MUST HAVE been a...
Dozer
HE'D DRIVEN DOZERS for thirty years. From bobcats to D10s. As a young bloke, he'd started in a warehouse...
The possibility of water
I DON'T EVEN really know where I first met Eli. She was just one of those people I saw...
