Handwriting makes us better writers, free of the suggestions of spelling and grammar apps, and it represents something of our personalities

I run from room to room, touching things as if they’ll somehow transport me to the past. Not much has changed in the old weatherboard

She remained still and present and let me talk about my partner dying till I was done. On the tram home I felt as if I’d unburdened myself of a great weight

There is fondness to my memories of those endless, unstructured days, when just being present was enough

Shortfalls in funding are causing these precious places to close across Australia – and children are falling behind as a result

I want to be supportive of her but not hovering. I want to be cool but not aloof. I want to be like the perfect travel guidebook

She called it my ‘therapy time’. Apparently, I was a vastly different style of driving instructor to her friends’ parents