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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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Why I blog

Why I blog

Why do I blog? Why do I type my thoughts on a screen, then press publish and send them out into the wide, wide world of the world wide web? That's a big question. It's too hard to answer that question in that form. So I'm going to simplify ...

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O Australia Fair

O Australia Fair

Image source (used with permission)   Australia O Australia The country fair In which a white man Took the lectern Faced a national audience And called for silence and respect To tell an innocent black man that he was not that ...

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Seven things I learnt from the Bendigo Writers Festival

Seven things I learnt from the Bendigo Writers Festival

Last weekend (or the weekend prior, depending on your definition of 'last weekend' on a Tuesday morning), I attended the Bendigo Writers Festival. It was fabulous. I filled my days (and one evening) listening to great writers, interesting panels ...

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Amazing Daddy – Rachel Bright (book review)

Amazing Daddy – Rachel Bright (book review)

Community service announcement: there are just two weeks and two days until Father's Day. (In Australia.) Earlier this week, I shared some of the presents we've already gotten my husband. (It's okay. No spoiler alert. He already knows.) But ...

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Father’s Day simplified

Father’s Day simplified

This post is sponsored by Bright Star Kids. Last month, I asked my husband what he wanted for Father's Day. After careful deliberation, he turned to me and said one word. "Socks." I waited for him to elaborate, whether to add to the list of things ...

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Stepping milestones

Stepping milestones

Today is an important day for me. It's not a birthday. It's not an anniversary. I don't have any exciting plans for today. I'm not launching anything. I don't have an announcement to make, a revelation to share or even a particularly brilliant ...

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The Dangerous Bride – Lee Kofman (book review)

The Dangerous Bride – Lee Kofman (book review)

Quite some time ago, author Lee Kofman contacted me to see if I'd be interested in reviewing her book, The Dangerous Bride. A book that, in her own words, 'tells the story of my misadventures in trying to be non-monogamous in the context of my ...

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The Little Girl Who Lost Her Name – a Lostmy.name book review

The Little Girl Who Lost Her Name – a Lostmy.name book review

I have a confession to make: I don't usually like personalised children's books. Perhaps that's because when I was growing up, they just weren't that great. Did you ever get one? They'd be impersonal stories, semi-well-written but vague enough to ...

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Work/life balance/juggle/ebb-and-flow

Work/life balance/juggle/ebb-and-flow

Image source I'm living a bit of a conundrum at the moment. I recently(ish) decided I was sick of working from home. I was sick of feeling like I should be with the kids when I'm working, and I was just as sick of feeling like I should be ...

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Hi! I’m Emily

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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