MY MOTHER, a few months away from the grand age of 99, took up residence in a care facility only a year ago. Until then she...

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01st March 2018 4:03 PM

OUR "balcony”, which we were told overlooked a "garden courtyard”, was a narrow strip from which we looked into...

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14th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

AFTER I told my stories, I invited them to tell their own stories, invent them, make up something colourful.

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04th June 2017 11:06 AM

I don't like goodbyes and there's a good reason.

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08th May 2017 5:05 AM

Why is it necessary to tell us not to do something we wouldn't do anyway?

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28th Nov. 2016 9:11 AM

SPRING, oh lovely spring, you arrive tomorrow and I greet you with love and welcome.

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31st Aug. 2015 2:08 PM

I’M reaching out to you this week.

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24th April 2015 6:04 AM

I WAS very taken with Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore.

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17th April 2015 6:04 AM

IT TOOK a lot of hearty encouragement and declarations of false bravery to ready ourselves for the job.

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05th Dec. 2014 8:12 AM

With Ann Rickard THE new Oxford dictionary has cited an impressive collection of new words.

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28th Nov. 2014 9:11 AM