Browsing: kindness

It was 2003 and the Peter Falconio case was fresh in our minds. As 22-year-olds itching for adventure, my wife and I, together with one of…

When I was very young, my family and I emigrated from Albania to Melbourne. As a child of refugees settling in Australia after the second world…

I’d completely forgotten it was my little sister’s 40th birthday, so that morning I hurriedly arranged to send some flowers to her house. She died before…

I was towards the end of a nine-week trip, travelling solo around the world. After that long abroad, I was just exhausted. So when I went…

It was 1996 when my husband was transferred to the small rural town of Healesville for work. In inner-city Melbourne, where we’d been living, we had…

We are going through the list of overnight admissions when my phone beeps. Expecting a medical request to do something or see someone, my chest cramps…

It wasn’t my first period but it was within the first year of getting my period. I was only 13 years old and, when you first…

It was Christmas Eve, 1977. I was 20 years old and working on the desk at a credit union as a teller. Management thought it was…

I was visiting the US as a 23-year-old with my mother and her sister. On a whim, the three of us decided to road trip across…