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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…
Dear Offspring, it’s time to call it a day. (July 2014)
’m just going to spit it out: I want Offspring to finish. I want this season – season five – to be the last one. In three weeks time, I…
At 30 I had a very clear definition of success. At 42 I threw that definition in the bin.
I made the two-hour drive south to see my parents last weekend and on my bed, waiting for me, my mum had placed an old cardboard box sealed…
My life is great. So why is this thought keeping me up at night?
What I’m about to tell you makes me sound ridiculous. But I’m going to tell you anyway because I don’t think I’m alone.And what I’ve learned recently has…
Today I got on the scales. Things didn’t go well.
Take a seat. I’m about to tell you how much I weigh. But I’ll get to that in a sec. Here’s where I’m at. I haven’t exercised in…
Does this admission really make me weird?
I’m a freak, apparently. On a road trip on the weekend, I confessed to something that nearly caused my friend to swerve off the road and crash the…
A man came to my door on Saturday and wouldn’t leave
A man I don’t know scared me. That’s what this post is about. That’s it in a nutshell. And when I say “scared me” what I mean is…
I’ve turned into the type of mother I once criticised.
Once upon a time I was a smug mother. When exactly? 2009 to be precise. Kevin Rudd was the Prime Minster, Tiger Woods was crashing into fire hydrants…
I was hurting and this is what helped
I have a stock-standard answer that I give when people ask me – and they always ask me – how I survived the death of my daughter Georgie…
Join me on Sunday 8th June to launch a wonderful new blog …
Meet Emma. She’s my babysitter. She’s 22. Loves a laugh. Loves to travel. And last year was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma. Stage 4 melanoma is terminal. Rather…
When Mothers’ Day becomes a painful reminder of what you don’t have.
I’m sitting here on Saturday morning writing this post. It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow and truth be told if I could close my eyes and skip a day –…
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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