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Right now, over the school holidays, there are a lot of teens who are having their own Blake Lively moment. Let me be clear — we have no idea what’s fully gone down between Taylor Swift and her former best friend Blake Lively. And this post is NOT encouraging anyone to speculate on that situation. But what we do know is that 1000 people were invited to Taylor and Travis’s wedding yesterday … and Blake Lively was not one of them. And that’s a situation many teens can relate to: Being publicly dropped. Having everyone…
Sunday Mail Column for Sunday 13th June 2010: the one about life after 40
It was one of those reality TV moments we’ve seen a million times before. Dom, the over-40 Charity CEO had his head in the guillotine following a dud…
First Sunday Club: Karuna – June 2010
Before I dive in to this month’s First Sunday Club selection, I wanted to take a moment to thank readers for their generosity so far. You donated thousands…
Sunday Mail Column for Sunday 30 May 2010
If someone asked me to define “feminism” when I was a teenager, I think I would’ve started randomly quoting lines from “Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves” that…
Sunday Mail Column Sunday 9 May 2010
So this is my second Mother’s Day as a mum and I’m delighted to reveal that I’m expecting bambino number two later this year. Which means that I’ve…
Sunday Mail Column for Sunday 2 May 2010: FIRST SUNDAY CLUB
There’s a lot you can get away with on a Sunday. Sleeping in (unless, like me, you have a toddler who wakes at 5.50am every morning and yells…
My appearance on The Circle talking about Find Your Tribe …
Okay, so I’m a techno-dummy and it’s taken me a week to work out how to load my Circle appearance onto my blog. (Sigh … it’s difficult being…
Sunday Mail column for Sunday 25 April 2010
There are many great things about being a writer. You get to work from home in your pyjamas and write Very Professional Emails while eating cornflakes and watching…
It’s 5am and I’m awake because?
Because it’s Murphy’s Law that when you really need to get a good night’s sleep – you won’t. I’m off to Melbourne today with Brad and Ava to…
The Way We Live: Sunday 18 April 2010
I realise I stand alone in many things. The fact I’ve never watched an episode of NCIS, CSI or SVU. My willingness to admit to buying Jason Donovan’s…
The Way We Live: Sunday Mail column
So I’m staring at another birthday. This week I turn 38. WHAT? Wasn’t it just yesterday I was putting on my best acid wash jeans and waistcoat, glazing…
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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