Making a Difference

‘Second Day’, International Women’s Day

March 8, 2012

‘Second Day’ That blood crusted crown, soft bone plates, pushed by birthing into cone-like shape. The arbitrary beeping and calling throughout the ward; the scuffling of nurses shoes announce their arrival – I often pretended to be asleep when they peeked through the door from the corridor, except when I didn’t, when I waved one [...]

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Run Melbourne 2012

March 1, 2012

I’ve been feeling like I’ve needed to challenge myself to some sort of physical goal this year. This isn’t only because I’ve put on two-and-some-in-change kilograms since Christmas, although I’d be lying if I didn’t say that is a partial factor. My personal trainer dumped me about a month ago. Okay, ‘dumped’ is a strong [...]

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Profits Promise 2012 – The Starlight Children’s Foundation

January 19, 2012

From the Starlight Children’s Foundation website: Living with illness or injury can cause enormous strain in the lives of children and their families. The pain, loneliness and isolation that sick children feel dominates their lives, and they often miss out on normal experiences that healthy children take for granted. Starlight provides programs integral to the total care of [...]

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Christmas Card Challenge for 2011 – Complete!

December 24, 2011

A couple of hours ago I sent around the email to all the commenters for 2011, thanking you all for your support and contributing to the overall sense of community here at Miscellaneous Mum. If you have commented at some point over the year but didn’t receive the email, it might be an idea to [...]

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2011 Christmas Card Challenge

November 2, 2011

To those of you new to Miscellaneous Mum this year, my Christmas Card Challenge is something I’ve been running since 2006. It began as a reciprocal greeting card bit of fun. Then in later years, in order to reduce my environmental impact, I decided to swap these greetings into email ones. I know this isn’t [...]

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Frocktober, Ovarian Cancer, an Author, and Me

October 18, 2011

I first read The Axis Trilogy ten years ago. We were living in our townhouse in East Brunswick, located less than fifty metres from CERES nursery. Strange as this might seem, but I particularly remember the time of day when I finished Enchanter. I’d finished work (I was only working mornings at that point) and [...]

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Frocktober, Lit Fests and More: Weekend Links

October 1, 2011

This one will be a bit of a squeeeeze at the moment. Must. Start. Running. Again. I can’t believe it’s October. October 1st. Three years since Surprise! was officially released. Amazing. I was going through those files the other week, in the cabinet and my email, and it was a refresher of the process: its [...]

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Jeans for Genes Day – Spreading the Word + Giveaway

July 20, 2011

Jeans for Genes Day raises money for genetic research at the Children’s Medical Research Institute and is coming up very soon on Friday 5th August. In order to spread awareness for the day, I have been asked by Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence to mention some of the following ways you might like to get involved. [...]

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A Numbers-Driven Account of Our Weekend, Including a Slight Detour into the Mysteries of Parenthood and Life

July 18, 2011

Air temperature at the beginning of the Run Melbourne race: about nine degrees, possibly more (it was actually lovely running weather) Photos by my sister Amount  of money raised by my sister and I for Motor Neuron Disease as of this morning: $910 Number of aches and pains throughout my body: about ten. (Something was [...]

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