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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…
In 2014 I’m going to stop lying on Facebook
Out of all the worthy resolutions floating around in my head, there’s only one I really plan to stick to. In 2014 I’m going to stop lying on…
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…
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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