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MY PERFECT MAN

My Man in Melbourne

Som Chai meets my family & friends

I am so excited that Som Chai is now in Oz and has been granted a partner visa.

He's met my family and friends, and even come along to Uni with me.

It is wonderful having him here with me - no more lonely nights or awkward outings on my own!

I can throw my wish list in the fire now because he fulfils all my dreams. I am so proud of him - he is charismatic, generous and kind, and he is also Budhist and a meditator!

An Ode to a Human Painting Machine

I wondered whether there was a difference between art made by a human and art made by a machine? So I made a fan that painted, and I became a painting human fan.
Conclusion: there was no difference.

Ketubot/Marriage Contracts

Just an Ordinary Peasant is based on my uncle’s experience as an inmate at Treblinka extermination camp in 1944. His memoir recounts that while being forced to carry corpses from the gas chambers to an open-air pyre, he was handed a sack which held little children who were still alive. The guard commanded the sack be thrown into the fire. The woman I play in Just an Ordinary Peasant is a hybrid character created from the memoirs of my uncle, my parents and my own research. She sings and dances and also throws a sack of babies into the fire. This piece explores my own biases as well as questions the culpability of ‘ordinary people’ who were accomplices to the atrocities carried out during the Third Reich.

An Ode to a Human Painting Machine

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She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother

Mum decided to move into my home in 2017, a year after Dad passed away. She was in her early 90s with the first signs of dementia. Instead of feeling burdened, I saw this move as a gift — an opportunity to care for her and share these years together.

These posts capture that precious time: mum living in my ‘share home’ with family members, housemates and guests, supported, appreciated and surrounded by love. The stories also offer a glimpse into the daily joys and challenges of caring for a loved one.

'All about Marysia' also includes stories from her earlier life -- pre-war, the war, and post war years.

Today mum is over a century old.

Our little refuge

Our little refuge

Our little refuge

3.8.25 I’ve written before about having international volunteers and long-term lodgers in my home. That all began after I separated from...

Jane

Aug 35 min read

Destination: 'Jane’s Place'

Destination: 'Jane’s Place'

Destination: 'Jane’s Place'

15.3.25 This morning, Akari, a 20 year old architecture student, flew back home to Osaka, Japan. This was her first overseas trip on her...

Jane

Jun 252 min read

From Belgium to Ashwood to Marysia

From Belgium to Ashwood to Marysia

From Belgium to Ashwood to Marysia

17.5.25 Mum has no idea that young people arrive from all corners of the world to spend time with her (actually, to help me care for her...

Jane

May 174 min read

A homage to my grandmother, Marysia

A homage to my grandmother, Marysia

A homage to my grandmother, Marysia

My daughter, Sunny, lives in Israel and is mother to Mia, Evie, Ben and Eitan. For the past 15 years she has been working as a midwife....

Jane

May 103 min read

The Bubble-wrap experiment

The Bubble-wrap experiment

The Bubble-wrap experiment

11.4.25 These blog stories are 'all about mum', but this time it's all about me, and a story about bubble wrap. One of my many challenges...

Jane

Apr 113 min read

Back from isolation

Back from isolation

Back from isolation

3.4.25 I'm back. The 10 days of silence have passed. No phone, no paper or pen, no book or notes to read. No-one to talk to except a...

Jane

Apr 31 min read

Should I stay or Should I go?

Should I stay or Should I go?

Should I stay or Should I go?

3.4.25 Because I work behind the scenes at the Vipassana meditation centre, it’s important that I try to sit at least one '10 day...

Jane

Apr 31 min read

All the way from Rome to Marysia, with love

All the way from Rome to Marysia, with love

All the way from Rome to Marysia, with love

16.3.25 Before travelling to Krakow and Israel in January, I knew I needed to organise some extra help with mum. I received a wwoofing...

Jane

Mar 164 min read

Two fine young actresses

Two fine young actresses

Two fine young actresses

2.3.25 When Salvatore Trapani (art historian, author and the brains behind the project ‘Echoes of Hope’) first commissioned a piece of...

Jane

Mar 23 min read

'Echoes of Hope: Art and Memory of the Holocaust'

'Echoes of Hope: Art and Memory of the Holocaust'

'Echoes of Hope: Art and Memory of the Holocaust'

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz January 2025 Krakow, Poland 20.1.25 In my previous post I mentioned that I was flying...

Jane

Feb 12 min read

'I don’t want to destroy anything for you'

'I don’t want to destroy anything for you'

'I don’t want to destroy anything for you'

14.1.25 The time has come to say both goodnight and goodbye to mum. In a few hours I’ll be heading to the airport for the 26 hour flight...

Jane

Feb 12 min read

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