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In 2003 I was in my early 30s, working for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s company The Really Useful Group in Sydney.…

Early in 2015 I was helping my friend organise her 30th birthday. She’d decided on the function space above a…

I met Dat in San Francisco in 2015. I had recently left a tourism consulting role in China and moved…

“Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.” ~Shinichi Suzuki I knew exactly what to say to…

The first time I saw Agatha she was saturated, standing in a knee-high bucket wearing a knitted woollen jumper that…

In 2013 I moved from Milan to work as a pastry chef in Marano Vicentino, a tiny town in the…

Weeks had passed, and I already knew that place like the back of my hand. The smell of cigarettes, alcohol,…

In 2007 I’d been single for a few years and had just returned from a year volunteering in a village…

In 2019, I started a job as a junior editor for an online city guide in Melbourne. I was struck…

I met Roger in 1975, when I was just 16 and he was 25. Returning home one afternoon, I found…