I push through a queue stretching all the way around the check-in hall and straight across the main entrances of Kaohsiung International Airport. Today, Southern…
Shivering in the cold, I hopped onto the mountain bike, awaiting the go-ahead to start the 3700-metre descent. I gripped the handlebars, my white knuckles…
Shit. What’s the Italian word for ‘help’? I frantically wracked my 10-year-old brain and attentively scanned the room for something I could use to pick…
“Quiet now, Samantha has something she’s going to share with us”. Every eye in the room turns toward me: the outsider lurking in the entrance….
I cough and gag one final time, elbows leaning on the porcelain with my hands folded into the bowl. My eyes burn as the tears…
You know when you’re a kid and someone says to you, “I bet I can beat you to that tree!” so you break into a…
It’s midday and I’m standing in a parking lot across the road from Warner Bros. Studio. Around me I can see families, couples, groups of…
It was 2PM in Osaka, and I was staring a pair of socks to death from the window of a shop in Tsuruhashi. This was…
When I asked my brother what advice he had for me for my trip to Japan I expected him to suggest an ornate shrine, a…
“Ma’am, would you mind stepping over here so that I can test your bag?” The only time I get called “ma’am” in my life is…
“Fate has brought us together for a reason, so I need you to listen and take note. It is your call whether you want to…
We might blame it on brainwashing from years of threats of the wooden spoon or slipper, but first and second generation Australians really need to…
