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 [...]

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The Eternal Questions

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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Champion Mothers

A Special Feature for Mother’s Day by Australian Author, Gillian Bouras Everything, for good or ill, and life being what it is, the admixture of both, begins with the mother. Not fair, but there you have it. And most of the unfairness lies in the fact that it’s all in the luck of the draw. [...]

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