Mother. Writer. Aging Rebel. Eternal Optimist
From the monthly archives:
EAT PRAY LOVE is a book I find very hard to review. The whole point of reviewing a book is to be able to judge it from a distance. I cannot do this with EAT PRAY LOVE. I am obsessed with the magic that is this book and the enormous talent that is Elizabeth Gilbert. [...]
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If you have ever so much as glanced through this blog, you will know I am all for the empowerment of women. With this in mind, Hillary Clinton should be my obvious choice for the next US presidency, but in reality it’s not that simple. I am a human being before I am a woman, [...]
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PARENTING IS THE HARDEST JOB IN THE WORLD. There is no rule book, it’s a job which receives no sick days or holidays, and there’s that gnawing fear that we may not be doing a good job. That we could, in fact, be stuffing it up entirely.
Children are wonderful. With their trusting hearts, gap-toothed smiles, [...]
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Australia awoke this morning to the news that one of its most talented sons, Academy Award nominated actor, Heath Ledger, was dead at the age of 28.
In our country, there are only a handful of international stars. People who have crossed the world to make their mark in the golden mecca that is Hollywood. These [...]
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I was reading The Lorax by Dr. Seuss to my son tonight, and as the rhyming text rolled off my tongue in sing-song waves I couldn’t help but marvel at the literary brilliance that was Theodor Seuss Geisel.
The Lorax is not one of his better known books, but it has always been my favorite. It’s [...]
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A friend sent this to me yesterday and I loved it so much I had to share it.
As I sit here with dirty dishes in the sink, my son’s toys strewn across the lounge room floor and more rain drenching the washing on the line, I can only dream of a life where I am [...]
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I’ll let you know up front, today I’m going to rant. Why?
Because I opened up MSN Messenger this morning and what was the first news item headlining MSN Today? Britney Bloody Spears.
Now, I have nothing against Britney and the rest of her lip syncing, scantily clad peers, but there is something seriously wrong with the [...]
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photo by oldmandigital
“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practise being brave.”
- Mary Tyler Moore, Actress
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock this past fortnight, you’ll know that the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated by a reported Al Kaeda suicide bomber on Thursday, 27 December 2007. If you’re not overly political and live in a western country, then there’s a good chance this news [...]
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I said I wasn’t going to make New Years Resolutions this year, but here I am, a couple of days into the year and I’m already breaking that vow. My New Years Resolution for 2008 is to to WRITE. Write obsessively. Write 2-3 times a week for this blog, finish my Mexico novel, write a [...]
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