My Story of Christmas Loneliness

It's sometimes okay to feel lonely, especially during holidays. Be gentle with yourself and take steps to prioritise your mental and emotional well-being.

In the mid-1980s, I lived and worked in Alice Springs for two years. It was a fantastic place as a twenty-something, a real outback adventure. A town of maybe 25,000 people - many of whom were Americans employed at the ‘space base’, the Pine Gap satellite surveillance base joint-venture between the USA and Australia. Of course, they were all spies worki…