Oh. My. God. I’ve stopped unpacking the groceries to write this post. I can see them on the kitchen floor and the kids are ferreting through the bags like beggars, each looking for the bright new shiny food. If an outsider were to witness their squabbling, their pushing each other out of the way to…
Empirically speaking, the very basics one needs to know about creating a perfect bound book is that the minimum number of pages required is 24 and that anything longer needs to be dividable by 4. For example, if your novella is 157 pages long then you will need to add some end pages, perhaps an index,…
I regularly have ABC2 on of a weekend afternoon. There they replay shows I usually miss during the week or recycle shows and music from the vaults of yore. Such was the case last Saturday afternoon when they were playing classic 80s music videos. I was pleased to hear the introductory banjo strumming of “The Rainbow…
It’s all toilet talk in our household at the moment. I’m going to blame preschool here, but not in a damning, brimstone kind-of way; more of a brace yourself for we are entering older childhood! reality. It was inevitable. If not at school, then via the park, or The Simpsons, or even just putting an ear to…
I chew my fingernails. I do more than chew my fingernails; in fact, I chew back the skin, peel it backwards, much in the same fashion as you would de-skin the cap of a field mushroom. I continue until the skin breaks off, or begins to hurt. Many times it bleeds. It usually stings. I…
Jasmin has this project running that began last week, and boy was I excited when I learned a bit more about it. She, along with Incentive House, came up with an idea: that bloggers could earn up to $1000 for the Opportunity International Microfinance Fundraiser. By writing a post on the subject we bloggers could earn a $100 for the…
{For reader people who might not see the YouTube clip here is Kevin Spacey doing a couple of his famous impressions, but more interesting, for me, is the film reviews.} For my sis. Happy Birthday, sis.
Maggie Van Ostrand from the HuffPo talks about Seabiscuit getting his very own US postage stamp (Phar Lap got the same years ago in Australia). Interesting. Rachel advocates against how midwifery in Australia is being driven underground and what we can do about it. A really nice tip from Laurel (as usual) about how you…
