Journal
Articles
The elsewheres of Charlie Bolt
NO ONE KNEW what happened to Charlie Bolt. He had a wife, somewhere. She left to find ‘happiness’, believing...
Magical thinking and the aged-care crisis
HOW DID AUSTRALIAN aged care reach its current nadir? Countless inquiries and reviews have probed this question; postmortem after...
Dying wish
I believe in my mother’s inherent dignity and personhood, although we became strangers to one another years ago. I try to remind myself that, while her illness may have overtaken her, it does not define her, no matter how long it keeps her imprisoned.
Hearing stories of the past
WHEN WE FIRST see Daphne, she is sitting in a pool of sunshine at the edge of her veranda....
Things of stone and wood and wool
FOLLOWING THE DEATH of her elderly father, a close friend of mine recently asked if I would read a...
On looking into mirrors
YOU LOOK INTO the mirror. There are a number around the house and every now and then one of...
A life in books
NOVEMBER 1952: BERNARD Marks has just arrived in northern Egypt from Salford, in the north of England, to begin...
Live long and prosper
THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS of ageing can be traced to its beginning four billion years ago in a gene circuit...
The human factor
I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief...
Joining forces
THESE ARE ANGRY times. The Earth itself is angry. Flames roar through the land, human tempers flare and the...
Old growth
IN 1975, JUST before my sixteenth birthday, I read in the summer issue of Dolly magazine that everyone needed some...
Killing time
The days of our lives are seventy years;And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,Yet their boast...
