Published in Verandah 21, August 2006
My grandfather was a dive bomber pilot in the Second World War. In the last months of his life, in a nursing home in Colac, Grandpa would enact emergency landings and go into imagined debriefing sessions from his hospital bed. When he died on Remembrance Day in 2000, our family [...]
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Published in Crossfire #9 2003 and lip #9 Spring 2005
At the age of nineteen I became a granny. Perhaps it was a little premature, but I was not alone. There was nary a blue-rinse among the staff of the Lifeline Retail Shop in rural Victoria where I volunteered for ten months in during my year-long [...]