When your mother quotes her daughter’s blog in the wider media
During the week my mother was interviewed by her local paper regarding her involvement in the World Youth Day celebrations down in Sydney.
This is a rough transcript of the phone conversation which occurred between us after said interview:
Her: “I quoted your blog!”
Me: “You did? What bit?”
Her: “It was your ‘vibrant Catholic‘ line from last week. […]
Openly pondering the commercial space which is - let’s not forget - my blog, and possibly yours
Back in the day, back when my Technorati was very respectable, and I played the ‘blogging game’ a bit better than I have the time (or the inclination) to do so these days, I made my way onto several “TOP BLOGGER” lists.
Remarkably, miraculously, I remain on some of these lists and, in turn, have somehow found my way […]
The one where I wave a bottle of squeezy honey at my husband in a slightly unhinged fashion
This seemingly innocuous bottle of honey caused quite the stir in our marriage last week.
You see, I despise these cleaning-disasters-in-wait; my husband on the other hand thinks that because it is a supposed ‘innovation’ in the way we spread this condiment over our bread that it must - nay, it is - even better than […]
Barricades and Brickwalls
[*no, I’m not talking about Kasey Chambers. Catchy title, though, so I’m going to borrow it.]
Yesterday:
The Good: An expression of interest was made in pre-ordering my book; this will end up being a number somewhere over 50 copies, which is wonderful.
The Bad: I received a letter in the mail from a book distributor who I […]



