Category: Personal
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The Move No One Told Me About
Canowindra to Kiama 1970 It wasn’t until my father turned south instead of west that I knew. I wasn’t going home to Canowindra. He said we were going to Wollongong. I didn’t know what he was talking about. Nor would I ask. I knew better than that. I’d been picked up by my father from…
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Who will be tribute this Australia Day?
Let Our National Hunger Games Commence. Again as happens every year, we’re very close to that special ceremony that takes place every Australia Day. For those who may not know, this is the process followed. First we need the nominations. Unlike Australian of the Year and citizenship ceremonies this one occurs almost in secret. But…
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Wouldn’t You?
Meanwhile the graduate girl to my right is smiling. Not at me. Nor at the cardboard coffee tray she’s found for her order. No, she like me, is watching a family order.
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How to Get an Instant Divorce
“You get your violence from the Vikings”, my then wife said. I fixed my gaze upon her. Not again, I thought. All I have to do is mildly disagree and she replies like this. So I decided this time to do something different. A lesson from the Whalan family history.
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Home Schooling to Adult Education : My Journey
My two eldest children were schooled, then home schooled and then returned to the school system. It was only when I read Jane Caro’s article regarding home schooling and the public education system that I realised the effect that had on me as an adult educator and as a parent. And my discovery about my children and…
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Before Sunset : Holding a Listening for Another
https://andrewwhalan.substack.com/p/before-sunset-holding-a-listening?sd=pf
