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Confessions of an ambivert: ideas, books, and life as a work in progress.

Newsletter · By Karen Hollenbach (KPH) · Official site

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Sep 20, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    At the Edge of What We Know (opens the original)

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    This week I learned that Garry Evans had died at home in Crookwell. He was eighty-four. I did not know Garry well. I knew him through a few phone calls, a journey in his four-wheel drive and our conversation at a recent Goulburn Mulwaree Library family history event.<source type="image/webp"

  2. Issue · Sep 12, 2026

    Spring Gardening & Reading Update (opens the original)

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    It’s been a while since I’ve shared a garden update with you because it’s been a while since I’ve done any gardening of note, beyond a bit of weeding. With the warmer weather in Melbourne on this fine and sunny Saturday, and a house full of guests due to visit for a casual family lunch tomorrow, I thought I would spend some time in the garden.Here’s the rhubarb and kale I harvested after recording the video with this update.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.c

  3. Issue · Aug 29, 2026

    In conversation with Fran O’Flynn, Goulburn Mulwaree Library (opens the original)

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    A note before you listen: This conversation mentions domestic violence, murder, execution, hanging and other forms of violence against women and men.If you are new to these parts, welcome. Perhaps you came along to my conversation with Fran in Goulburn and heard the question from the audience: “What is Substack?” It may be your first time using this platform. If I am describing you, well done for wrangling the tech!Here’s the prologue and first few chapters of The Silence is Part of What Happene

  4. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    I’m so excited. This feels big. (opens the original)

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    When I was a little girl I had a best friend called Annie.We went to kinder together. We were inseparable until grade two or three.Until Annie’s family moved. She started going to a different school.We remained friends.We saw each other as often as our parents let us. We are big girls now.And we are still friends.We have real conversations.She’s a counsellor, so we have the tools and extra words to describe all the thangs. One of her favourite words is “big”. Annie uses this word when she is ref

  5. Issue · Aug 13, 2026

    In Her Words, with Deb Robinson (opens the original)

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    A note before you watch: This conversation includes discussion of murder, execution, hanging, rape and other forms of violence against women, within the context of historical research.Deb Robinson is a historian, researcher and storyteller whose book In Her Words: Stories of the Women Executed in Australia tells the stories of the 25 women executed in Australia. Ellen Monks is one of those women.I went into this conversation wanting to ask Deb for her perspective on Ellen’s story, but our discus

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