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When your mother quotes her daughter’s blog in the wider media

July 27th, 2008 at 5:23 am » Comments (7)

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

July 25th, 2008 at 5:39 am » Comments (6)

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

July 23rd, 2008 at 5:54 am » Comments (11)

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

July 22nd, 2008 at 6:02 am » Comments (6)

[*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 […]