Growing up along Sydney’s northern beaches, I enjoyed a typical Australian childhood, playing in the bush and swimming in the sea. My conservative middle-class parents were defined by the values of post-war white Australia: cricket, rugby and the love of Queen and country. It was a simple life, the path to happiness neatly written out [...]
I had just turned 40 years old and was really taking a hard look at my life. I felt like such a cliché, wondering if I was having a 'mid-life crisis' or was just in a reoccurring rut. I was married with two kids living in a beautiful brownstone townhouse in a big US city. [...]
I had what I considered a normal - indeed, lucky - upbringing with supportive parents. They were like chalk and cheese, yet they gave me and my brother a stable home and made sacrifices to give us the best life they could. As a young boy I recall my parents moving home and taking out [...]
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