Finger puppets that are also magnets for your fridge.Click on the one you like and you can buy one for you or your friend. My faves are Sylvia Plath and Maya Angelou. There are lots more on the website. They make me laugh! This gorgeous makeup bag or pencil case with Alchemy fabric. I WANT! …
Reviews of Nicola Redhouse’s extraordinary book – Unlike The Heart called it a memoir or as an editor called the rise of books about women with Post Natal Depression, a Mum-oir. This book isn’t a traditional memoir in my opinion. It is more than that. It is a study of the brain, of family, of …
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This is an old post from my old, now defunct blog that a reader asked me to re-post for her. This was written in February 2015 when I was caring for my brother who was having treatment for Burkitt’s Lymphoma at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. Stepping into the elevators at the cancer-centric hospital, where …
Hello Friend. I have been doing a lot of reading lately. Educating myself is the only way through hard shit. Lots of Podcasts and books as the guidebook to me trying to be better and do better. I cannot imagine not wanting to try and be a little better to the world, each and every …
Dearest Friend, I thought of you last night and wondered how your resolution is faring. I know you set some big goals for yourself but I worry you put too much pressure on them to have happened by a certain point and time. I have done this before and then been so disappointed and given …
A writer friend and I are obsessed with all the books titled with the words daughter, wife, girl, woman. The Woman on the Corner The Postmistresses Sister The Butchers’s Daughter The Candlestick Makers Wife The Witch’s Sister The Serial Killers Mother And on it goes. My friend and I have come up with our own …
Horoscopes For the Dead Every morning since you fell down on the face of the earth,I read about you in the newspaperalong with the box scores, the weather, and all the bad news. Sometimes I am reminded that todaywill not be a wildly romantic time for you,nor will you be challenged by educational goalsnor will …
Hello Friend, How are you? You are on my mind more than you realise, which is lovely if you think about it. Imagine the time’s people think of you during the day, and don’t shake your head at me, as I know you are doing right now. More people think of you than you realise. …
Dearest Heart, I am writing this to let you know I am thinking of you. I know your mind goes back to that time when that terrible thing was said and done but do you think it is helpful for you to go there so often? Sometimes people just do terrible things, even though they …
Dear Friend, Thank you for reminding me I forgot to post this letter. I have had a lot on my mind of late and didn’t realise I had skipped one! I wanted to tell you some things about where I am at right now. I have a health issue which is proving to be tricky …