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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.

Mum, Sunny had a baby boy!

Mum, Sunny had a baby boy!

Mum, Sunny had a baby boy!

10.10.2018 On the 10th of October 2018, Sunny gave birth to a beautiful baby boy called Eitan. Even though they are so far apart, mum...

Jane

Oct 10, 20181 min read

Another Porridge Story

1.10.18. Mum’s really confused today. When I woke up she was nowhere in sight. I looked in all the rooms and then realised that she must...

Jane

Oct 1, 20181 min read

My Porridge?

Sept 2018. Mum points to the porridge. It’s mine? To add banana ? Yes. But it’s not mine, it’s your porridge. It’s yours. Now what shall...

Jane

Sep 1, 20181 min read

Breakfast no.1

11.8.18. Mum looks at me and points at the cooked porridge. Now porridge? It’s mine? she asks with a quizzical look. She stands there...

Jane

Aug 11, 20181 min read

Breakfast No.2

Breakfast No.2

Breakfast No.2

Aug 2018. Mum’s forgotten how to make her porridge. And her cup of tea. She stands there in front of her bowl of soaked porridge, staring...

Jane

Aug 1, 20183 min read

Yasha, do you lose your patience with Nana?

Late July 2018. I’m back home after 11 days at a Vipassana silent meditation retreat. I’m in the kitchen with mum again for breakfast....

Jane

Jul 21, 20182 min read

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