September 2010 Issue 102

ship wreck streaked across beach with tears of rust

early morning

a surf boarder rides

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Walking aft to our tower, I saw our Ocky strap bowstring tight and the trolling line singing. Shocked [More...]

Sarah is sitting on her small verandah, idly watching an eagle soaring on a high thermal current. She marvels [More...]

The series about The MacNamminy family, created by Philip McCormac, continues. "A fancy dress party at St. Patrick’s hall. Has a [More...]

I really must thank the many, many of my Bonzer fans for their good wishes for my recovery from my [More...]

It all began after the lecture on saluting. Porky Binns clenched his fist and slapped Bluey on the [More...]

We have all heard the title being used by others; and, may have used it ourselves. Using this expression [More...]

“Home” means different things to each of us, and our homes differ to an extraordinary degree. In my lifetime [More...]

The seventh  excerpt from an unpublished autobiography of a pioneer pilot in Australia, edited by John Powell.

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Have you ever said, “Never say never?”  I suppose that many of us have uttered (or shouted) these [More...]

As one sails on the great ocean of information within these pages, one might be forgiven for being unaware of [More...]

Selected by Peter Hinchliffe for “Open Writing”

Written by Mike Shaw

Peppermint creams have a special place in my affections. Ever since [More...]

"Hello is this the Johannesburg Funeral Home?"

"Ya."

"My Name is Mrs. Beatrice Van-der-Watt and I am phoning from Australia."

"From Australia, [More...]

The landscape of identity: This account about the concept of country in Australian Aboriginal cultures can be read in tandem with [More...]

There is nothing more wonderful after a prolonged drought than the sound rain makes pattering onto a roof. Our first [More...]

Once a colleague in my University department died suddenly, and within a month his room had been utterly cleaned out [More...]

Joey and Eddy Dellaro started building the place in late '47.

I’d check their progress each night, make a note [More...]

Compiled by Kath Mounsey

Thought for the Month: Money never did buy happiness; and [More...]

“I don’t believe it!” Sandra could not hide her disgust. She had been minding the store at Archie’s Antiques [More...]

Here in the heart of Toronto, the skyscrapers are crowding the skyline, jostling with each other for space, and imprisoning [More...]

Empty crab pots: No dinner tonight

Cold windy morning: dogs walk cancelled

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"And I’m never coming back! Never! Never!" The glass shuddered as the door slammed.

Gladys Thompson, primly pruning her [More...]

Enjoying a short visit to Borneo with our daughter, my husband and I were persuaded to join her on a [More...]

We’re visiting Germany for a few days and arrived late yesterday just ahead of the rain. Barely had time to [More...]

Martindale from Hallin Fell, Cumbria, UK

 

Richeleau Island, Lake Constance, Germany

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Sharp knife:  cut finger:   bloody orange..

Empty crab pot: no dinner tonight..

The drive-in pictures:  yesterdays memories..

Gophers: potato tunnel diggers: spring [More...]

"If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever [More...]

Early October, 1918 and life was a tad easier in our little section of France. Corporal Ted Never [More...]

selected by Alan Wheatley

 

 

Each month we look back at a story [More...]

My brother Pete and his best mates, Benjy, Luke and James had been inseparable since kindergarten. Whether playing, studying, wagging [More...]

“There’s No Place Like Home.”

I was a littlie of just four summers when I saw Glinda The Good Witch [More...]

Older members of my family always seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of enjoyable old songs. Folk songs, on the [More...]

A woman in our village was was telling me the other day of a bolshie parrot called Toby, more of [More...]

For ease of reading, our monthly book reviews, compiled by Alan Wheatley,  appear together;  simply start at the top and [More...]

Morning tea was in full swing as the members of the Mothers’ Group gathered to congratulate the new mum [More...]

These memories of my early childhood are occasional, random, non-sequential and fleeting—like flicking through a cardboard box of old sepia [More...]

Last November, we realized a dream we'd had of staying on an Island near Kingston, Ontario

Last November, we realized [More...]

A bigamist I knew was indicted

Due to all of the women he’d plicted.

Said the [More...]

"I think he’s dead", my father said as he nodded towards the man across the ward. "Who’s dead?" My father shook his [More...]

A Hartley South Seas - uniquely different from the water line up Now our boat ain’t worth a lot of money, [More...]

I wish I knew what impelled me to call on Hildur and Hayden and Jeanette that particular afternoon. It is [More...]

Election Day, and I must say,

I wish it all would go away.

I’ve tried so hard to read it all,

But there’s [More...]

Well the Tour de France is over for another year. Lance Armstrong appears to have bowed out but it looks [More...]

Failure is a word that can strike despair in many young minds, and yet, now that I am older I’m [More...]

While I waged war on an invasion of large green frogs which took up residence in the cool of our [More...]

As a small child I was curious, forever asking why? When visiting Aunt Jessie I always wondered why an [More...]

Daylight grows.

Gold defeats gloom.

Shoots tiny and green

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I wonder where you keep your memories.

Are they all thrown together in a jumbled pile somewhere in the recesses of [More...]

Our old homestead, located on a sheep property in the outback of Queensland, boasted two fairly modern flush toilets which [More...]

Water seeping down my back

Dripping from my hair

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