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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories – Dr Seuss (book review)
Hooray! I love Seuss! More Seuss! I was so exited when I saw Horton and the Kwuggerbug on the local bookshop shelves! But I was also wary. Needlessly, it turns out. Here are my thoughts. --- Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories ...
Neologism
Neologism. I love that word. What does it mean? I'll let the Macquarie Dictionary take it from here: neologism noun 1. a new word or phrase. 2. the introduction or use of new words, or new senses of words. 3. a new doctrine. So why am I talking ...
Youse pedants are gonna love this post
I was recently discussing pronouns with a close friend. (Don't you just wish you were my friend? Constant conversational parties around here. PRONOUNS. WOOT.) It started with a discussion of gender-neutral third person singular pronouns - ...
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