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In an effort to better my writing and reignite my love for books, I have decided to start reading more.
I’ve just read Wuthering Heights, and was amazed by how privileged people back in the 19th century seemingly passed days, weeks, months and years doing nothing but eating, getting dressed and undressed, taking walks/riding ponies [...]
When I was doing my Trinity Foundation Studies in Melbourne, I wanted to become an advertising copywriter. I remember one day being asked to come up with a simple advertising concept for an MP3 player, and how much I loved the assignment. That evening, as I was walking home, I thought for the first time, [...]
It’s been a very long while. My HP laptop died one Friday morning, on a deadline day, of course, and while I managed to retrieve my hard disk and save my work, it left me without a computer for almost a week.
After we discovered that it would be better to buy a new machine [...]
“More often than not, a mother’s personal needs and desires are unselfishly placed a distant second. But as mothers, we should encourage each other to overcome the guilt of occasionally meeting some of our own personal needs.”
- Mother: Guilty as Charged, Chicken Soup for the Working Mom’s Soul
Too true. I have been making [...]
“I did not sew, bake, or clean house to anyone’s delight – and still do not. But I can write. That is my work, where I feel special. Where my identity has a voice.
I never made a living as a freelance writer. Writers seldom do. It wasn’t my income that kept me working … [...]
After much thought, I have decided not to return to full-time work, at least for now. It’s a move I’ve admittedly contemplated from time to time – and always rejected because going freelance really isn’t as wonderful as everyone seems to think it is. But at this point in my life, given that firstly, I’m [...]
When I was in university, I kept a journal chronicling, among other things, my thoughts, struggles, hopes and dreams. Even though I didn’t have a lot to say most of the time, I did have something to say pretty regularly. As the years passed and I graduated, the entries became less frequent, and now I [...]
As quickly and quietly as I could manage on my shaky legs, I walked to the gate and unlatched it. If the dogs come now I’m done for, I thought. The only thing in more trouble than a prisoner is a prisoner caught trying to escape. I swung the gate open quickly, squeezed through and [...]
The dogs came charging around the corner, headed straight for me. I instinctively turned to the nearest wall, hoping with all my heart that they’d been well fed that day. I think I would have screamed if I hadn’t been so busy trying not to panic.
The Rottweiler jumped up onto his hind legs, landed [...]
“But why?” she’d whine at me a thousand times. “Why don’t you like animals?” To which I’d have to patiently explain – yet again – that it’s not that I don’t like animals. I generally have nothing against them, and I do like the really cute ones. It’s just that I could very well live [...]
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