Monthly Archives: May 2014

The colour burgundy

When my grandmother was a teenager, her only brother went to war. It was World War I and he never returned. When my grandmother was a new mother with two toddlers, men came to her house (the very house I … Continue reading

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Sunday dugong

Sorry about the long silence — caused by a variety of factors, first and foremost by the demise of my old computer and, consequently, my having to get used to a new one, which included a new operating system that … Continue reading

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