I have been reading about Pamela Bone, the prominent Australian writer and journalist who died recently. I did not know her, but I know some of her work, and admire it. The tributes that have, as they say, come pouring in, make me wish I had known the woman as well as the writer. She [...]
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The Pendulum Swing
Nikitas, my grandson, was 20 months old when I spent last Christmas with him and his parents, Greek Katerina and my son, half-Greek, half-Australian Nik at their home on Crete. Katerina and Nik are repeating the pattern of the latter’s upbringing, only in reverse, so that Nikitas speaks Greek with his mother and English with [...]