Write. From the Heart.
It’s now 40 years since Swish and his cohorts from Elizabeth High faced their Matriculation year. How’d they turn out?
Under the glorious elms at Yarrawonga, Dips ponders the essentials of life; generational change and mortality, tennis, music, and realising, as Shakespeare wrote, that “life is but a walking shadow.”
This week is the 60th anniversary of the start of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Ann Rusden tells about going along to watch, not knowing she would later be friends with one of the athletes in action.
With a Datsun Sunny named ‘Boony’ at short leg and once being dismissed by the Virgin Mary, Ged McMahon reflects on the current cricketing crisis in the context of his own backyard of dreams
It was 1998 again, last weekend in Tanunda. What Mickey Randall’s sayin’ is true.
John Harms doesn’t get to Fraser Island with PJ and the crew anywhere near enough. It is paradise.
In this extract from the recently released anthology Man and Beast, edited by Andrew Rule, Anson Cameron tells the boyhood tale of his brave dog.
You never forget your first. Here’s Craig Dodson’s
It seems everybody has a Doggies yarn. Peter Sweeney throws his into the mix.
While Mickey Randall’s own music career was fleeting, once he found jazz he found a love that was enduring. From his youth in Kapunda, his Mum & Dad’s jazz records showed him there was a bigger world out there to visit.
Andrew Starkie travels back to Warrnambool to share old and new memories with his daughter.
Birthdays are a time for reminiscing, and for Micky Randall many a loved memory has been recalled.
Come one, come all, to the Brunswick Street Oval for lunch this Saturday (May 28). John Harms will chat with Alicia Sometimes and Nicole Hayes – editors of the book “From the Outer: footy like you’ve never heard it.” [Bookings are open – Ed].
End-of-life conversations can be difficult. Yvette Wroby shares thoughts and words from a memorial speech she made for her recently departed mother, Elfie. [Our condolences Yvette – Ed].
Boarding a plane turns out to be surprisingly awesome for Trucker Slim. Thoughts turn to footy
In this retrospective piece, David Parker reflects on his journey and his Footy Club.
Swish has lost his passion. Help him out.
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