Month: July 2012
My chance encounter with Offspring …
Monday nights are usually pretty blah for me. With the kids in bed, I’m often working. Half-watching Q&A. Making myself cups of tea. Forgetting to drink them. Making…
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Why I won’t read ‘Mummy Blogs’
In April 2003 I was a little bit smug. My first novel had been published to universally glowing reviews and I took great delight in telling anyone who…
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Lindy Chamberlain grieved the ‘wrong’ way …
It was 1980, I was eight years old and sitting on the lounge room floor leaning back onto my mum’s lean tanned legs when I heard someone –…
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If you’re the perfect parent, please stand up.
Six days ago, a really, really weird thing happened. It appears that the entire Australian population turned into Carol and Mike Brady. We went to bed on Tuesday…
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Germaine? You lost me at ‘big arse’ …
At 9.47 pm last night while I was feeding my six-week-old son, checking my emails and wondering at what point my three-year-old daughter had decided I was on…
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I sent a work email just hours after giving birth to Fin …
It was one of those delicious rumours that spread through my hometown twenty years ago; propelled along because of its irresistibly juicy mix of perceived bad behaviour and…
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