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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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So this week I screwed up. BIG TIME.
So this week I screwed up in a fairly big way. I wrote a rather controversial piece about a European fitness blogger (Caroline Berg Eriksen) who posted a…
My best friend’s gay wedding.
I’ve known Louise since I was five-years-old. We sat side by side in Mrs Robinson’s grade one class and became instant bosom buddies in that Anne of Green…
I had a baby and became a crap friend.
At some point when I wasn’t looking, I became a shit friend. The type of friend people start whinging about a lot when they’re at dinner and they’ve…
The love-letter I needed to write.
If I did a stocktake of the posts I’ve written for Mamamia over the past three years, I suspect there would be a dominant theme to them: …
The four-letter word every woman needs to stop using.
One itty bitty word. Just four letters long. But dammit, I’m going to force myself to stop using it. So what’s the word? Wine. Just joking. (Have we…
I’m fed up with Australian politics. Here’s why … (June 2013)
Australian politics has become all about mud slinging. Yesterday a menu made my head explode. For those who missed it because you were perhaps…
Why do married people behave so badly around single women?
I’ll cut to the chase. Last week I behaved like an arsehat. I was out at a book store event with my splendid, 40-something friend Zoe when I…
Kate Winslet and the lesson I’ll never forget
My timing could be better. We’re just weeks away from Mother’s Day and here I am writing a post that essentially criticises my mum. Let me tell you,…
Motherhood is amazing.
I have a habit of comparing my four-year-old to foreign megalomaniac dictators. I have, in conversation and online, likened my daughter Ava to Stalin, Idi Amin and, yeah…
9 Literary heroines to love
They change us. Befriend us. Show us how to be fierce. Brave. Loyal. Or conversely show us the consequences of decisions we’ll never make ourselves. We may be…
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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