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Is this the conversation you need to have with your child before school goes back?
Have you taught your child how to recognise a good friend? When you write a book about the importance of choosing the right friends in school, it goes…
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…
I still choose you.
Sometimes I look at my wedding photo and I don’t recognise the bride smiling back at me. And I suspect she wouldn’t recognise me either. She’s 34. I’m…
"I didn’t know Charlotte Dawson but this is why I cried for her today."
I had a hot and cold relationship with Charlotte Dawson. Don’t get me wrong, we never met. But when she first came to my attention on Australia’s…
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…
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…
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…
Dear 12, your final grade won’t make or break your life …
Photos are deceiving. That photo of me (and my perm) was taken on my last day of high school in 1989. And I look deliriously happy. I…
My chance encounter with Offspring …
Monday nights are usually pretty blah for me. With the kids in bed, I’m often working. Half-watching Q&A. Making myself cups of tea. Forgetting to drink them. Making…