I was one of the guests to speak on the Writing Online panel at Offset’s Creative Arts Festival this past Saturday. As I’ve talked about this blog, and my writing/upkeep of it, a fair bit over the years, I wanted to make this talk a little different. It’s a pretty personal story and I’ve never really…
One year ago – give or take – I launched my ‘living list‘ by having a morning tea with some blogging buddies, while I decided if it might be a good idea or not to hold a snake or not, thereby also giving me the chance to tick off the first item. In the end…
I’m in the final stages of proofing. This is a delicate, crucial point: for example, I found ‘top’ today when it was supposed to read ‘tap’. Yep, those sorts of mistakes you find and think, ‘Thank CHRIST I caught it’. I’m hoping you will excuse my distraction – I’ll be here properly later in…
You know an industry is in a state of existential questioning when conferences pop up all over the place and are attended en masse. Jane Morrow, Beatrice Davis Editorial Report 2011-12 I immediately wrote the above quote down while doing research for a writing piece I was working on over a month ago and it…
For either Christmas or his birthday – I forget which – Riley was given one of those inflatable, floating remote control sharks that set the internet alight with amusing videos. It was the kind of novelty purchase that my husband can be relied upon making either very late in the night or after a few…
This conversation is totally imaginary, but totally plausible; thus, like all fiction, making it at least as true as anything that has actually taken place. Karen: Thank you for agreeing to meet with me to discuss the potential of my PhD candidacy. Academic Dude (AD): No problem at all … [added under breath] … it’s what…
This is another recipe along the lines of the whoopie pies from last week – jumping on the bandwagon, so to speak, and I’m looking straight at Adriano Zumbo to blame here – although there’s a slight difference in this case as I have eaten many macarons in my time and none of them, none of them,…
We go through spells and phases; ups and downs, travelling along in spite of the terrain. But sometimes … there’s a point where you go ‘Okay, enough’ and have a crying jag such as has not been seen outside a screening of The Notebook. Does this sound familiar? That’s been me lately! Fun, right? I’m a…
