[ad_1] As parents we take liberties with our newly arrived bundles of joy. Lumbering them with names and spellings of names that are sometimes a burden, tying them to cultural and religious rituals, putting their name down for independent schools, the Melbourne Cricket Club, picking their footy team. The list goes on. I didn’t get […]
[ad_1] Despite the calm and the quiet, libraries are also dangerous and subversive places. They exist to pass on not just pleasure and information but new ways of thinking and viewing the world. Books, especially novels, ask the reader to people-travel, to take on the skin of another person and imagine the world through their […]
Dogs are almost perfect, better than humans, of course, and vastly superior to cats, goldfish and rabbits. But there are some things that dogs could do better: mine and maybe yours. Name, Clancy Glover, occupation, dog. Credit: Illustration by Kathleen Adele Do dogs really need to follow you from room to room, all day, every […]
