This article was published in Coles Baby Magazine, Summer edition 2006/7. I happily breastfed both of my babies into their first year and wrote this piece because I felt information for parents regarding breastfeeding beyond the twelve month milestone was harder to come by. Many children– almost one in four– are still being breastfed past their first year of…
…just remember Robert McKee’s words: Let’s say that this morning our storyteller tells her friends the story of “How I Put My Kids on the School Bus.” Like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, she hooks everyone’s attention. She draws them into her spell, holding them slack-jawed over their coffee cups. She spins her tale, building them up,…
I have been working these past few weeks supervising an art exhibition. In the quiet times between when there are people in the gallery, I have been writing. Last week I was tidying up some poems and short stories. This week – and the ones to come – I’ve decided to pick up the long-neglected novel…
This piece first appeared online at the Melbourne’s Child website back in 2004. It’s no longer available there, so I thought I’d re-post it here. This is the sort of thing I was writing about parenthood before this blog came along… I think I was born under the wrong star sign. I should have been…
First published in France in 2008, and then translated into English in 2009, Daddy Lost His Head is a delightfully cheeky book as one might expect from the hands of Quentin Blake and Andre Bouchard (Bouchard is a French cartoonist). I’ve seen one negative online review (and that centered on a perceived sexism in the…
Here is an abridged version of my brief talk about Miscellaneous Voices from the New Voices Festival: This might seem like a simplistic statement to make, but I feel that blogging is fundamentally a celebration of voice. Bloggers are of all types and aspirations and their space is the place where they can find (or rediscover)…
Finishing: The Tenth Man, Graham Greene. Borrowed from the library this week: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke The Last Love Story, Rodney Hall Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan Batman: The Ultimate Guide to The Dark Knight*, Scott Beatty *For the kids, but Adam and I have been dipping into it. Fascinating stuff. Riley…
Like always, there’s so much I want to see, but family commitments being as they are, I won’t get to them all. I’m particularly planning to get to: Joss Whedon’s Keynote Address, Friday 27th August, 9.30pm, Melbourne Town Hall. Tickets already purchased! (Luckily – they’ve sold out) The Amplified Author – Exploring New Business Models For…
Made tinsel by conniving sunlight, the mist sparkles outside but I can only think of the cold. My fingertips tingle discomfort bores through spaces between ball and joint I turn the key in the ignition and for the fiftieth time it fails hope cannot turn over the engine here, alone, with pen and notepad; childless, waiting…
