Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to be afforded the opportunity to pitch my children’s picture book manuscript to an agent. I was seized with nerves – as anyone would be – but perhaps wasn’t as frazzled as I could’ve been weren’t it for the fact that on Friday night my son came down with a…
Dearest, I loaned you my ipod in good faith a little while ago. I saw you take it to the computer and tinker with the song selections. I know its embarrassing it’s only an ipod shuffle. Thus we only have 100 songs or so to choose to upload at any given time (although I remember…
A giant silky oak which is regretably dying, and needs chopping down. Underneath all this natural mulch are stones which we laid, but the persistant weeds have grown through, as evidenced here… ……and here. I want to bobcat all the ground back to some sort of levelness (hard to do when you live on an…
The Bad I got a rejection letter this week from a publisher regarding one of my manuscripts. I had to pick up Keira from preschool on Monday because she wouldn’t stop crying. As I suspected, I’ve put on approx 1.5 kgs since before going away on our road trip I have been suffering the brain-freeze…
I haven’t posted any reviews lately, have I? Did you think you might’ve caught a break and I’ve forgotten about it? Nope. Sorry you non-readers out there (but I suspect most of you are!) I’m plowing through three at the moment: 1) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2) Fear of Flying by Erica Jong 3) Captain…
How is blogging like keeping a pen-pal? Is it at all? Let’s see: you can keep in touch, cross continents. There is often dialogues and confessions. Conversations are as likely to be continued via email, person to person, once contacts and trust has been established. It is arguably more convenient, also. One can choose to…
When Adam pulled up in the driveway the other afternoon, it was quite a surprise as we were not officially expecting him until the following day (although my spidey-sense was tingling all day, so I kind of expected him anyway.) So, I run outside, arms out like Melanie welcoming Ashley home in Gone With the…
Keira has taken to ‘setting up shop’ in our walk-in-wardrobe. Her wares are exclusively our shoes, and it could be any part of the day when I walk by our bedroom to hear her muffled cries within of, “Shoes for sale! Come and try my shoes!” So I oblige, and walk in to see her…
When I was 17, something strange happened to my left breast. It got red. It suddenly got very itchy, especially around the nipple; which then began to excrete a mysterious, clear liquid. As you’d expect, this was enough for my mother to take me to the doctor. I had a mammogram – a procedure uncomfortable…
