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Writing this morning in a cafe I glanced up and saw a young woman coming in on crutches, she was slightly built and small and following at a painful distance the bigger, older man who ...read more
Herbie Hancock came to play Brisbane, it was bona fide. He and the band really loved it each other. When he came onstage, spontaneously people in the audience stood up, one by one, until pretty ...read more
This beautiful waiter was so caring and funny, he stood for five minutes as a very young guest chose his pizza, then I saw him across the room carrying a fully-laden table with quivering wine ...read more
Today in a cafe two small incidents seemed to me to illustrate the forms of self-involvement that are more common to women, and to men.A man walked in and ordered a coffee at the counter. ...read more
My stomach feels like a shrivelled bulb after two martinis, no dinner. Whoever invented alcohol is my god: right now, my god. The last time I had one of those (a martini, a god) was ...read more
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Last night I went out for jazz and at the bar a man nibbling on the rim of his beer said thoughtfully, You are doing such a great job tonight. I said, Thanks! Then: Great ...read more
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Yesterday I was at my friend's place after a thunderstorm and she had a little curving highway of ants running up over her wall, so tiny they looked like caterpillar's eyelashes, and I said look! ...read more
I was lying on my bed reading in the stifling heat today and a cane toad went hopping past my door. I found him in the hallway looking inscrutably lumpy, there followed a prolonged episode ...read more
