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I recently presented a keynote speech for the Australian Publishing Association. Authors, booksellers and publishers, all in the same room. It was a really special event. I spoke about two VERY diverse…
READ MOREI’ve been collecting books for tweens and teens on *all of the things* for many years now – for the various schools I have worked at and for my own children. I…
READ MOREThanks Lana Hallowes for this guest post: I’m ashamed to admit this, but I’m really struggling to help my little guy learn to read. Reading feels like the biggest, most insurmountable mountain…
READ MORESince Dan’s death, the girls and I have been a team of three. A team of three surrounded by family and a village of people who have supported us online and offline…
READ MOREChickPea is NINE! It seems like just yesterday we were having her first birthday party, a ‘Bad Tempered Ladybird Party’ because she screamed with reflux pain for the first year of her…
READ MORE“Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. Max Porter ‘Grief is the Thing With Feathers’ Crappy…
READ MOREAs I try and find a moment this week when my children are not glued (superglued) to my side, in order to simply wrap their Christmas presents, I remember what the lead…
READ MORETwo years is such a very short time in #grieftown. When my brother died unexpectedly in 2012 I spoke about feeling like I was in a place, far from everyone else and…
READ MOREIf you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, you will know that I love a local online jewellery store by the name of Oh My Giddy Aunt – this is…
READ MOREIt would be fair to say that I love a good book themed gift or twenty. My latest fav is these book jewellery boxes from Oh My Giddy Aunt (seen above). This…
READ MOREGone are the days of me tripping off around the place at the drop of a hat and leaving ChickPea and PudStar at home…those days came to a crashing halt when Dan…
READ MORESo. I’m writing a book. Allegedly. Dear glory I hope Kristina from UQP is not reading this…but I promise it will one day sit alongside those lovely UQP spines above! It’s been…
READ MOREBeautiful Narelle… You will be so missed by your family, so missed. I know only too well the grief cycle and you, my mum and I have discussed grief at length on…
READ MOREI don’t agree with standardized testing such as NAPLAN, but at this point there is no avoiding it, so I will at least use the data to shine a light on an…
READ MOREPudStar’s Show and Tell Good afternoon Two Gold. My name is PudStar on the internet. We call me that on the internet becuase it is not good to put to much information…
READ MORE(a post in which I rave about a desk – oh yes I do) Both my children are ‘creators’ – of mess mostly, but also of art, stories, Lego cities and…mess. They…
READ MORESeven Years Old and a Book Update We have just celebrated PudStar’s seventh birthday with a bollywood party with friends and a family dinner – and we are now living in what…
READ MORESummer Holidays and Pelicans If you live in Australia, I hope you are enjoying the summer holidays and have had the chance to dip your toes into some salty water and wiggle…
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