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Our London Bridge

by David Wade Chambers

Port campbell — When my mother visited the Great Ocean Road a few years ago on her last visit to Australia, I tried to coax her to walk with me out across the two great spans of “our” London Bridge. ‘No’, she said, ‘it might fall’. ‘You’re right,’ I answered cunningly, ‘it might fall tomorrow, or it might fall in a thousand years. And I rather think it will be a little closer to a thousand years.’ Mother j...

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reflection, work

It'll get better. But it's gonna hurt first.

by Donovan Bui

Newport beach — Today was the most disappointing day of my professional career. I spent most of the afternoon trying to hide my embarrassment behind a forced smile. I don’t think I fooled many. When I got home I wan...

history, lighthouse

Further to the lighthouse debate...

by Shay Darrach

Toronto — Earlier in the month, I ventured over to the Toronto Islands to find the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse. I had been meaning to for a while, and not just because there’s a Toronto Dreams Project postcard t...

Cycling, Maps, Today's office

Hills like sleeping dogs

by Steve Dearden

Ilkley — I am riding a flower at the moment. It’s a way of choosing routes, a way of coping with the map being red. I have never really thought about how I choose which way I’ll ride my bike, sometimes I kno...

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