Attachment theory for beginners
We were off to a post lockdown party at a park in downtown Melbourne. I really didn’t know anyone except our hosts, and so, I took the initiative and introduced myself to a man who was sitting next me in a camp chair. I asked him what he did for a living, and he told me […]
Audrey Hepburn has gone missing
We were visiting a friend in Vancouver, Canada and I was exploring the city. There was a commercial gallery selling studio portraits of Hollywood stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. I entered the gallery. It was a large, brightly lit space. Framed black and white photographs were displayed in single rows on the walls. As a serious student of […]
Louisa May Alcott – newcomer inspiration
The Alcott family moved an exhausting twenty-two times in thirty years before settling into Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, which became the setting for Louisa May Alcott’s (1832–1888) semi autobiographical novel Little Women. She certainly deserves a special award for enduring so much change. Louisa’s father Amon Bronson was an intellectual and educator but he […]