A teenage boy sat listening to his friend, patiently waiting for the supply of tales about the previous evening’s parties and misdeeds to finish. Once they did, he sank back as if relieved and, in defiance of a nearby sign ordering patrons to refrain from doing so, stretched his legs out across the seat. “Gawd,…
It’s been a while since I’ve read a book that is quite so quotable as The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It seems almost impossible how Kundera manages to squeeze on to every page a thought, epigram, philosophy or phrase of penetrating beauty or insight – and yet he does. Here are some of my favourites:…
I am one of the Overload Poetry Festival reviewers this year (complete with a generous introduction by Maxine – colour me blushing!) and my first review is up if you’d like to go take a look.
He is good at it and I think he likes it… … don’t you? * This week I’m trying to get some back-end issues working ahead of the big, new blog unveil. I had hoped it could be done over the weekend, but as the issues are turning out to be trickier – and have…
We decided to do some things a little differently for this Malaysia Kitchen experience. First, we would go out for dinner, not lunch. Second, we invited a family of our friends to accompany us. Total number of eaters? Eight. Very doable. After weeks of indecision (to which my friend can attest) I finally settled on…
Hola! Well, let’s see: I’m dressed, I’ve eaten, I’ve put a load of washing on, I’ve gotten the kids off to school. I consider that progress. Naturally, work of all kinds (blogging and writing) has been put on the backburner, and while I think I have either accounted for, or put off, everything I needed…
I have an essay called ‘If The Blood Had Come’ coming out next month in The Sound of Silence: Journeys Through Miscarriage. The anthology has twenty-two women, including my friend Tiff, recall their painful experiences and share the insight these provided. The book trailer explains further: I won’t say too much at this point what…
Yesterday saw Keira and I rise and drive two-and-a-half hours to regional Victoria so she could participate in her first Gymnastics tournament and I could sit on a wooden bench for three hours only to turn around and drive another two-and-a-half hours home again so we could go to a friend’s 40th birthday party. Sounds…
Books discussed or mentioned: The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa Siddhartha by Herman Hesse The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Forever by Judy Blume The Mammoth Book of Dracula, edited by Stephen Jones Anno Dracula by Kim Newman A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel…
