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About this time every year I remind people to grab a copy of my favourite Christmas book: How Winston Delivered Christmas by Alex T Smith. I know what you’re thinking. It’s October. You’re like, “Calm your farm, lady.” But you see this book is an ADVENT story. Starting on 1st December and finishing on 25th December you read a short chapter every night to your kids. Or your dog. #nojudgement It’s one of my FAVOURITE Christmas traditions and we’ve been reading this book every December for years now. My kids still LOVE it. See, kids…
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The Way We Live: Why Jerry Seinfeld is wrong …
No wonder I’m tired. It seems that I’ve spent the last two years working in recruitment. I looked around at my closest girlfriends the other day and realised…
The Way We Live – Good intentions and keeping your shirt on ….
This is my favourite week of the year. The year ahead is at its most shiny, its most fresh. Right now 2011 is perfect and ripe with possibility…
The Way We Live, Sunday 26 December 2010: Triumphs and Trials
There’s still five days to go but I’m guessing you’ve already called it. The votes are in. The tally’s been done. You’ve summed up 2010 in your head…
The Way We Live, Sunday 19 December 2010: Sharing Christmas traditions
You know how much I love a ritual, how much I adore family traditions. At this time of year it’s the little things that can help make the…
The Way We Live, Sunday 12 December – What’s Normal?
Oprah’s coming. Look busy. Or better still look normal. As I write this Team Oprah are scouring the country to find a normal Aussie family for her to…
First Sunday Club: Project Love and Care
Christmas 1975 and there was just one toy I was whispering about in Santa’s ear. One toy I desperately wanted, longed to own, dreamt of unwrapping under the…
The Way We Live, Sunday 28 November 2010: Make a will
Five months on and I’m still getting over the shock of the Catholic Church’s decision that pop songs can’t be played at funeral services. Not that I’m Catholic.…
The Way We Live, Sunday 21 November 2010: Hooking Up with Charity
I had an interesting conversation about advertising recently with a copywriter pal. “I hate ads!” I said to her. My pal begged to differ. “No you…
The Way We Live for Sunday 14 Nov 2010: You are not your OP score …
I remember what this week was like despite the fact it unfolded ten years ago. Okay twenty. Fine, twenty-one if you want to get specific. Twenty-one years ago…
First Sunday Club November 2010: Stillbirth Foundation Australia
In 2003 a friend handed me a video. “Watch this,” she said. “It’s devastating.” Devastating didn’t come close. What I watched that afternoon was “Losing Layla” – a…
About Bec
Over the past 25 years Rebecca Sparrow has earned a living as a travel writer, a television publicist, a marketing executive, a magazine editor, a TV scriptwriter, a radio producer, a newspaper columnist and as an author.
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