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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 First Review Is In!
Australian Bookseller and Publisher have reviewed Find Your Tribe (and 9 other things I wish I’d known in high school) and awarded it 4.5 stars out of 5.…
Sunday Mail Column 24 January 2010
You know what I miss? Mixed tapes. (Insert pause as I reminisce about making slightly lame mixed tapes full of Bangles, Eurythmics and WHAM tunes) Today it’s easy…
Stationery makes me happy.
Lookey, lookey at what I just bought. Lovin’ it. I hate to quote You’ve Got Mail (That film was pretty to look at but I’m sorry there are…
Don’t Get Me Wrong, I Do Love George …
But, I have to say, I saw Up In The Air on Saturday night with my friend Nic and I was a little let down. I mean it’s…
FRAMED PICTURE OF BOOKS I’LL PROBABLY NEVER READ …
In December I was wandering around Borders and found a little orange box full of classic Penguin book covers. You know, The Great Gatsby, The Odyssey, Wuthering Heights…
Sunday Mail Column: Suicide Mission to Become Real Again
The promises are tantalizing. Meet your neighbours. Get your life back. Stop self-procrastination. Improve your relationships. One little thing can deliver all that? You betcha. Best of all…
Sunday Mail Column: Smart Thinking
It was the last thing I expected to find. Two nights before Christmas in a backyard in the suburbs amidst the noise and fairy lights and is-that-Jim-dressed-as-an-elf? mayhem…
Sunday Mail Column for Sunday 2 January 2010
Here we are with a fresh, shiny year in front of us. A year plump with possibility. A highway of perfect days ahead. The truth is we’re standing…
A clean slate
I love a fresh start. Here’s a little bit of New Year’s Day inspiration for the year ahead ….(thanks to Katie for the link! xx) As for me,…
Sunday Mail column for Sunday 27 December 2009
It’s hard to resist. At this time of year the temptation to write a list of resolutions is as strong as the one to sneak a spoonful of…
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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