Sydney, 1985 “You aren’t a real foodie” my friend and part time food critic Leo said in his heavy Australian accent while he leaned against the table. “What do you mean?” I asked, washing the green chard with yellow stalks in the kitchen sink overlooking Sydney Harbor. He went on to explain that people who […]
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June sixth nineteen fifty-two was the date on the death certificate. My sister and I were trying to piece together the calendar of our young lives from the day our father died of a brain tumor in an Oxford hospital. I remembered our mother coming home with Sven that autumn, a tall filling-all-the-space American air
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I read this morning of new stronger variants in South America struggling with Chinese vaccines with sixty percent efficacy and assuming three shots a person at least, less than ten percent of any country vaccinated and the gifts of American vaccine not scratching the surface of need. I listen to conversations around me about returning
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The British Government announced today that they were withdrawing funding from Voluntary Service Overseas, which was a model the American Peace Corps was based on. The Boris Johnson government doesn’t want to extend funding to other countries. Those countries were once under British rule. VSO as it was known colloquially was the opportunity for me
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Today is the first time back to The Broad Stage since I left last summer. I got an email from one of my programming staff still at the Broad. ‘You can’t miss HOME’ he wrote. ‘Not after everything you went through to bring it’. John and I had seen this piece performed at the Edinburgh
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