Me: “How was school?” Child: “We got to write down the names of the people we’d like to be in the same class as next year.” Me: “Oh yeah, who did you pick?” Child: [rattles off some names] Me: [Surprised at one or two of those names] Really? Why? Child: For strategic reasons, I suppose….
Those of you who are new to this blog this year might be wondering what the above means? Am I about to go on a stanley-knife-crafty-hot-glue-and-myriad-coloured-cardboard-card-making orgy? No. First, a reminder of this year’s chosen charity. Taken from my introductory post back in January: I’ve been aware of The Starlight Children’s Foundation for years. A former…
GREAT books (it’s like they read my blog and know what I like!), tea samples, book orders and a cheque! Blogging will resume to a semi-regular schedule soon. Life is frantic to say the least … and the state of the house? The less said the better. x
I arrived early up to Sydney this past Thursday to spend some time with my sister. In one of those twists of fate (or chance), she now works out in the same suburb where I used to live. I spent a lot of time walking around, taking photographs – making some people look twice in…
The October/November issue of Bookseller+Publisher Magazine has the first review of Crying in the Car: Reflections on Life and Motherhood. With their kind permission, I’ve attached it below: Click here if you want to see the full-scale version. I’m pretty chuffed! Those of you interested in pre-ordering, the link to put your name down…
I admit that when it comes to memes/challenges I find myself swinging between two camps: The first thinking that they can help unlock (or unblock) creativity because they identify a thing or idea than needs capturing, and therefore imposed ‘rules’ are somewhat of a relief and are open to play or as radical an interpretation…
(I particularly like the spelling correction.) Happy weekend, everyone x
Read / October 24th, 2012
Slim pickings, I know. I’ve been listless and out-of-sorts this month; there’s a to-do list that’s getting longer and longer and I get spooked every time I think about sitting down to tick something off. Then at bedtime, when I usually do most of my reading – except I’m not supposed to read in bed…
I was one of the guests to speak on the Writing Online panel at Offset’s Creative Arts Festival this past Saturday. As I’ve talked about this blog, and my writing/upkeep of it, a fair bit over the years, I wanted to make this talk a little different. It’s a pretty personal story and I’ve never really…
