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    Healing After Trauma—THE DEATH OF A SPOUSE: This Post Written by Ian Wells

    By annestg|Published On: March 4, 2024|Categories: Guest Post, Writing Australia|2 Comments on Healing After Trauma—THE DEATH OF A SPOUSE: This Post Written by Ian Wells|

    Anne says: I'm reposting this today, as it is so very relevant to all of us as we age, and risk losing loved ones who are also ageing. My dear [...]

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  • River scene in China

    An Invitation to a Qing Ming (Grave Sweeping) Ceremony in China: Text and Photos by Roger Britton

    By annestg|Published On: April 20, 2023|Categories: Guest Post, Travel|0 Comments on An Invitation to a Qing Ming (Grave Sweeping) Ceremony in China: Text and Photos by Roger Britton|

    A Guest Post on The Art of Creative Writing website, this post written by Roger Britton How it all started We had been hosting Chinese students in our home for [...]

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  • 1963: An Outback Teaching Appointment To A Small School

    By annestg|Published On: November 23, 2022|Categories: Guest Post, Writing Australia|0 Comments on 1963: An Outback Teaching Appointment To A Small School|

    How would you fare if, like Alan Parkes, you were sent to "Bourke and Beyond" to run a small school in your first year out of Teachers' College? Anne Writes: [...]

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  • Andy, David (Ping) and Gordon at the Farewell Dance in 1963

    Armidale: The Gang of Four

    By annestg|Published On: February 18, 2022|Categories: Guest Post, Writing Australia|0 Comments on Armidale: The Gang of Four|

    This is a guest post by Gordon Forth, a fellow student at Armidale Teachers College, who started there in 1962, a year after me. Gordon writes: Please find attached my [...]

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  • Heritage listed 90 year old building

    Memories of a Country Education

    By annestg|Published On: September 23, 2021|Categories: Guest Post, Writing Australia|2 Comments on Memories of a Country Education|

    by Ian Harry Wells (Wellsy) Armidale is a city of learning, being home to the first NSW Teachers' College established outside of Sydney. The Armidale Teachers' College is a heritage-listed (now [...]

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  • A fairy-tale wedding

    Things Come in Threes by Ian Wells

    By annestg|Published On: September 22, 2021|Categories: Guest Post, Writing Australia|9 Comments on Things Come in Threes by Ian Wells|

    What would you do, if you lost your long-term partner? How would you cope with the grief? My Armidale Teachers' College classmate, Ian, writes about just this. Feel free to [...]

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  • Coping With Covid

    By annestg|Published On: August 23, 2021|Categories: Guest Post|0 Comments on Coping With Covid|

    A Perspective from Two Young Women https://youtu.be/Pgy4PlX9EWM Covid isolation and protesters as seen through the (younger) eyes and voices of 2 women I am proud to call relatives: https://www.facebook.com/coronavirus_info/?page_source=covid_vaccine_faxit&hoisted_module_type=covid_vaccine_development Ange [...]

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  • a-genteel-presence

    A Story of a Genteel Ghost told by Roger Britton

    By annestg|Published On: February 16, 2016|Categories: Guest Post, Writing Australia|6 Comments on A Story of a Genteel Ghost told by Roger Britton|

    A Genteel Ghost a true story by Roger Britton I never believed in ghosts before, but now I am not quite sure … perhaps a “presence” is what I mean [...]

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  • “Kids Will Be Kids” by Ian Harry Wells

    By annestg|Published On: February 2, 2016|Categories: Guest Post, Writing Australia|5 Comments on “Kids Will Be Kids” by Ian Harry Wells|

    Here's a story from my Teachers' College friend, Ian Wells. It's great for me to re-live that all-important primary school teaching experience through his words. It's the kids' future that [...]

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  • a father’s tale … by Ian (Harry) Wells

    By annestg|Published On: January 25, 2016|Categories: Guest Post, Writing A Novel|2 Comments on a father’s tale … by Ian (Harry) Wells|

    There really are FEELINGS IN YOUR HEART you don’t even know exist until you have a child of your own. It’s a sensation without description. When our first-born finally arrived, [...]

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