Amanda Bower has written for the The West Australian, covered the Sydney Olympic Games for Sports Illustrated and was TIME’s correspondent in New York and then San Francisco. She has lived in the United States for the past 13 years, currently in Northern California, but still eats Vegemite toast for breakfast. For more of her writing, visit her website.
How to Create a Family
If you can’t be with the ones you love for the holidays, love the ones you’re with