cculture
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The H is silent

  • 20 July 2020
My first name begins with a silent letter so alliteration exercises in primary school weren’t fun. “Happy Hsu-Ann”…
ttravel
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Nomad no more

  • 19 May 2020
Australians boast the inglorious irony of being the best off people in this pandemic and yet we’re potentially…
iidentity
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How to edit your life

  • 30 April 2020
It’s one thing to love writing; it’s quite another to love editing. Editing is a passion I only…
ttravel
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NYE lessons from Ecuador

  • 29 December 2019
Australian New Year’s Eve traditions mostly involve drinking hard, watching fireworks and calling it a party. This is…
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Turning on TED

  • 24 June 2019
It was only 18 months ago that I publicly wrote that one of my deepest dreams was to…
iidentity
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On recovering Anglicans, vegetarians and nomads

  • 13 November 2018
I like to say my boyfriend is a recovering Anglican. He's actually not even Anglican, he just happens to go to an Anglican church and I just happen to enjoy having a go at Sydney Anglicans. What I really mean when I say he's recovering is that he is no longer doctrinal about his faith and how he practises it - in fact, he's ardently against legalism. Similarly ...
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Pinch yourself and hit send

  • 30 April 2018
One my favourite simple pleasures in life is rediscovering songs from the 90s - and in particular, the one-hit wonders. My most recent nostalgia hit is Pinch Me by the Barenaked Ladies. Remember them? Yeah! Ten years ago to the day, I posted this brief status update to Facebook (in the third person - I guess that's how we did it back in the olden days). Intriguing! So ... what was my youth all about again?