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…

  Australian politics has become all about mud slinging.       Yesterday a menu made my head explode. For those who missed it because you were perhaps…

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…

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…

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…

In April 2003 I was a little bit smug. My first novel had been published to universally glowing reviews and I took great delight in telling anyone who…

Click here to read my latest post up on Mamamia.com.au    http://www.mamamia.com.au/weblog/2011/05/is-your-friend-really-a-frenemy.html

I flew up to Brisbane yesterday to do a fabulous “Women With A Voice” event at one of my favourite schools – All Hallows.  I joined the Sunday…

I’m currently working with the Queensland Writers Centre to organise “Writers On Rafts” — a fundraiser for the flood victims in Queensland. 100% of the proceeds will go…