It was a touching moment when the two siblings – my 95-year-old father Frank and his 92-year-old sister Lilian – fell into each other’s arms and wept. They had not seen each other for two years since my Auntie Lilian’s 90th birthday and the emotional reunion took place at father’s facility – the Glynde […]
Sometimes it takes serendipity to reach out to strangers and decide on the spur of the moment to meet them at a local coffee shop to learn something of another woman’s difficult life. Such is the story of how I came to meet local poet, Jill Gower, who has written the story of her life […]
Adelaide’s own ‘ silver bodgie’’, former rock star and amusement industry entrepreneur, Frank Sebastyan has turned 70 with a karaoke night for family and friends at the Stamford Plaza Crystal Room. Nowadays instead of handling a microphone, he swings a tennis racket with great successful for a late bloomer at the sport. And […]
One of Australia’s eminent neuro scientists, Associate Professor Judy Morris, has taken off her white lab coat to draw intricate art of the natural world and the human body. She, who once used special dyes to see brightly fluorescent light in human nerve cells now prefers to use shades of grey – charcoal and […]
Don’t blame it on our kids! New research has found that the financial disadvantage women face in retirement has nothing to do with whether or not they have a family. The research paper, What’s choice got to do with it? by Prue Cameron for the Canberra-based independent think-tank The Australia Institute, says women retire with […]
Before the hail of praise on Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie fades following her shocking revelation of a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction, it’s important to note a few frank facts. Gorgeous Angelina, who oozed sensuality in that Oscars high split black velvet dress, learnt that she had the “faulty’’ BRCA1 gene at age 37. The […]
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