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mixed emotions

In front of me is a notepad and her camera. To my side is six screwed up bits of paper.

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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. ~Paul Eldridge

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bequeath

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal. – Isocrates 436 – 338 BC To my daughter I leave this memory. In grade six my best friend was Lesley. She was the school benchmark for all that was clever. And I never begrudged her that, because she was smart, super smart. The smartest girl in […]

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December 21st 2009 Somewhere in between planning festivities and ticking the gifts that are done and the gifts that are yet to be done came this tiny little voice telling me that my heart feels like it’s going to burst. No… I don’t mean a clichéd version of joytotheeffenworld aww look aint that liddleangel so […]

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men ancholy

There was a little boy in my life. He reached up to hold my hand. He was terrible at tying his shoe laces. His best friend at kinder was a girl named Alex. He played with matchbox cars.   We took a walk together down the bike track, close to the creek. He watched the trickles of water. Looked […]

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Was reading today about a group who have “shamed” companies such as MacDonalds, Kellogs and Krispy Kreme for using apparent “healthy” messages to promote their unhealthy products. It’s true. Many companies spotlight one aspect of their product, *low in fat* but make no mention of the seventeen spoonfuls of sugar per bite. It’s called marketing.  […]

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Does he wash up?

  Driving the kids home from school lately is a chore. For at least a month there have been road works at a busy intersection I need to cross. At peak times it takes five or six turns of the traffic lights to get through. Annoying. Much. So this afternoon instead of watching the snails slime by […]

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Last night our son left our loungeroom- upset with something his Dad had told him to do and stormed to his bedroom. He slammed his door so hard that the house rattled and a blast of his hormones assaulted us in the jetstream. Dad, not one for warnings, took his DS console, which son had left on […]

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Behind the Hall of Preserving Harmony is the largest courtyard of the Forbidden city. As some of our group, sweaty but determined, headed up the grand marble staircase I was distracted by a gathering of folk who seemed intent on trying to fan themselves while catching two wild children. These kids were slippery indeed. They […]

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This afternoon we trolled through the garage (otherwise known as the repository for everything other than the car) looking for a case suitable for Miss 8’s impending camp. Her first camp. I finally found the one I was looking for, a snazzy-surfy one that her big brother had used on his first camp. I was elated. […]

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