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Plastic Defence: Column piece
This month marks Plastic Free July and I for one am left with a slightly uneasy feeling about the timing of this campaign. An innocent coincidence? Maybe. Or used in the wrong hands, could it provide...
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Return Of The Tea Lady: Column piece
Those of you privileged enough to have grown up with a school dinner lady, may recall suppers doled out with all the gusto of a bored prison guard. I missed out on that experience however, I did...
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Author Update (Oct 2019)
Around ten years ago I took on the voluntary role of Social Rep for the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). The Society, which receives no government funding, is made up of a small team of dedicated...
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2019 The Year Of Finding Our Voice
As summer starts to bite and 2019 draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on the year that was. thanks to helanfronekmd Business The business world saw significant reports into the Banking and Aged...
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Perth Festival 2020: Tips for Perth Literature and Ideas
Two years ago the Perth Writers Festival reformatted into the Perth Writers Week under a new director. All change requires time to settle in particularly after the program made been managed by the...
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New Book: Tips for Working From Home
It’s never been easier to work from home, and 20+ years’ experience has taught me you can have as much, or more success working from home, if you just set yourself up well in the beginning. My latest...
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Covid-19 Hair
In March 2020 the Australian Government restricted haircuts to 30 minutes, making all women of Australia become more cognisant of the threadbare heads of our mostly male leaders. Clearly, it’d been a...
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10 Lessons From Covid-19 About Life and Ourselves
Turns out Covid-19, the bug that crashed uninvited into our lives and refused to leave until we’d learnt our lesson, has actually taught us a thing or two. As we move forwards into a post-Covid world,...
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Getting Lippy
Recently while watching a reality show I became obsessed with one of the participants lips. Every time she came on screen, I found myself staring at her philtrum, that are between hee nose and top...
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Conflict-tared
In late February I was riding my bike along a main street in the Perth CBD when I was stopped in my tracks. A massive machine was oozing hot black tar across one half of the road. The image was...
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Does Social Media End Friendships?
Earlier this year in pre-Covid times, yes that’s how we view 2020 now, having arisen from the social haze that was Fringe, I caught up with a fellow blogger friend. Over lunch, which we photographed...
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Movie Review: The Mystery of Henri Pick
A movie about a found manuscript. By now I thought I’d seen every movie permutation about writing a book, evidently not. The Mystery of Henri Pick movie provides a new mystery angle. A delightful ‘who...
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