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Archives for September 2016

The week my six-year-old was my stylist

The week my six-year-old was my stylist

My daughter is a little fashionista. She constantly asks to choose my outfits. I have let her do so before, in January of this year and in August of last year. So after weeks (months) of saying, "Soon, soon," I had to let her at it again. Last ...

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The Fence – Meredith Jaffe (book review)

The Fence – Meredith Jaffe (book review)

I was in a bit of a book-reading funk earlier this year. I'm not sure what put me there. Perhaps I read a few stinkers in a row; perhaps I was in a funk myself, and therefore any task to which I turned my hand (or eyes) became funky by ...

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Seven things I learnt from the ProBlogger conference

Seven things I learnt from the ProBlogger conference

I spent last weekend at the Gold Coast. Before you all roll your eyes at this #humblebrag, I'd like to point out that the rest of my family spent the weekend at the snow. I missed my children's first trip to the snow. I was a little sad ...

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Strobe (National Stroke Week 12-18 September 2016)

Strobe (National Stroke Week 12-18 September 2016)

When I was nine years old, my family bought a VCR. We were so excited, so fascinated. It had a remote control! And the remote control had lots of buttons! So very many buttons! Our favourite button was labelled STROBE. If you pressed it, it ...

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I parent. I write. I blog. I play with words and numbers in my head. Constantly. It's crowded in there.

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