Don’t forget to pencil the 31st of July in your diaries for the New Voices Literary Festival. It will be great!

This coming Sunday is the Run Melbourne Half Marathon. I’ve spent a few days in serious deliberation about whether to line up and run or not. Although I am better this week, I am still congested and snotty. I don’t want to do anything silly like risk an injury or put my body under stress it can’t handle, but I don’t want to renege on the commitment I made either. That’s not my style. Especially since I’ve had so many generous donations and I thank you all.

So this is what I’m going to do: I’m going to go and just see how it plays out. If I make the halfway point and say “I can’t go on” I will stop and run the remaining distance later. If I feel like I can keep going, I will.

Here’s the donation page if you want to take a squiz.

And wish me luck, please!

karen andrews

Karen Andrews is the creator of this website, one of the most established and well-respected parenting blogs in the country. She is also an author, award-winning writer, poet, editor and publisher at Miscellaneous Press. Her latest book is Trust the Process: 101 Tips on Writing and Creativity