October 2008
8 posts
Locals get royal recognition →
Bondi Bohemia →
Mind, body and spirit →
IT scholarships offer career pathway →
A scholarship graduate lands a great job with IBM
Creative mums get online →
A Manly-based mum whose cup was over-brimming with creativity shares her passion with other mums
Helping to run Coffey not just making a cup →
A ‘day in the life’ of an Executive PA
A pretty lax response to a bigger issue
Without realising it until today I find that I have been conducting a daily self-scan. As each new, wonderful day passes with what is reported to be yet another woeful turn in the financial crisis wheel, I turn inwards and ask myself - well, how do you feel about it?
So today I realise that not only do I ask myself this question on a daily basis, but that I have also found my answer - the one I...
Football and David Foster Wallace
I went to a barbeque yesterday. In true grand-final, long-weekend style we sat in my friend’s backyard and drank a whole host of liquid -wine, beer, champange and coke.
I hadn’t seen these friends for almost two months and I had been nervous before I arrived. I felt bad that it had taken me so long to see them and I was worried it could be uncomfortable.
In spite of my eagerness...
September 2008
6 posts
Love online
Discoveries from our world at 1:21pm TODAY.
Google love and you get 2,720,000,000 hits
There is a wiki devoted to explaining how to love
There are approximately 74,600 love-tests online
There are approximately 5,620,000 love proverbs online
Greek people have approximately 5 different words/types of definitions for love
CS Lewis, when writing about love gave great kudos to the...
Following the Pioneer Woman
I found the Pioneer Woman as I leafed through the Adelaide Advertiser Review - I’m just keeping up with the other states…
The first thing that struck me was how pretty her site looked. It’s like a personally branded magazine.
Who is she?
Her name is Ree. She is American woman in her mid thirties. She grew up in Midtown America and went to college in LA. She now lives on a...
The question why
“Why do I write.” It’s a good question. Ask it of yourself every once in a while.”
Reason number one: I find myself dreaming about writing. It’s never at a computer, it’s always with a stack of those A4 lined notebooks that you can steal from your stationery cupboard at work, or that I used to buy from Franklins when I was at high school. It’s always a...
Rules to life 101
What are the rules for social interaction now, do we know? We, the generation that date online, end our relationships by text and head to the ‘office for one’. Have we made up new rules or are we ‘winging’ it. Just the other day a girl in my office came up to me with flushed cheeks. ” I need to ask you something,” she said, grabbing my arm, half grinning,...
The way we were
Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.
This weekend I went to a wedding for friends I met when I lived overseas. We had to drive to Forster. The ceremony was in the Green cathedral- looking up you could see a canopy of gnarled branches -across to a sweeping expanse of light blue water.
There was around 120 people...
Walking my mind
When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn’t leave you.Walk with an animal walk and take in everything around you as prey.
This morning, at my new job I sat at my desk and wrote two news stories. The office was quiet and I felt nervous and not comfortable. I don’t know anyone yet and then, if someone does make a joke I feel like I can’t laugh yet because if I do...
August 2008
5 posts
Janine has a point, ( actually, Janine has a number of great points, fab use of pictures and a great sense of humour) getting your ‘break’ into journalism is hard. I’ve been thinking about how mine might happen for years. Infact my parents have a family video of me, aged seven, looking defiantley into the camera and saying ‘I am going to be a journalist’. And just...
Cranky
Discipline has always been a cruel word. I always think of it as beating my lazy part into submission, and that never works.
I don’t need Natalie today. Where normally I would wait and savour every word, eager for the space her writing brings me; today I feel a sense of restriction. I read the words really quickly and instead of the sensation of clarity I feel myself shuddering -...
Stumped
‘Sometimes we sit down to write and can’t think of anything to write about. The blank page can be intimidating.’
I wondered today what Natalie would do if she had to write on a screen. Thinking about it she probably already does - now. But she wrote her book in 1986. I was 6 then and battling it out in year one. Natalie was soft curling her hair and wrapping scarfs around her...
Advice for moments of need
‘It is important to have a way worked out to begin your writing; otherwise, washing the dishes becomes the most important thing on earth-anything that will divert you from your writing. Finally one has to sit down, shut-up and write.’
Turning back to Natalie has once again proven helpful. I think that there is an inner voice that threatens to sabotage writing. I’m scared of...
Throwing it all away
A writer lives twice, said Natalie Goldberg. She is the author of the first book I ever read that made me realise just how much I wanted to write. The book is called ‘Writing down the bones’. A dear friend lent it to me when I was about 19. I’d just finished high school and was working to save up to travel to Europe.
It is also the first book I can ever remember having read...