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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Vanity.
I always take a book with me when I go to the hairdresser. Certain procedures take some time and I’m happy to read and wait. I had a hairdresser once who thought that was an almost hilarious thing … Continue reading
Posted in appearances, hair
Tagged books, cate kennedy, hairdressing, like a house on fire, vanity
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The artist and life.
In my early 30s I found myself rearing a small primary-school-aged child, working, and continuing a late last fling at a university degree. A co-worker who was by now a friend of mine picked my daughter up from school one … Continue reading
Posted in books, women, writers
Tagged bob dylan, charles dickens, friends, kate dickens, Miriam Margolyes, universiity
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An hour with Helen Garner.
It was the lighting that did it. Helen Garner looked too old to be Helen Garner. Every now and then, when she tilted her chin upward, she looked like herself. But they were brief and unheralded moments. I had wanted … Continue reading
Posted in women, writers
Tagged books, helen garner, janet malcolm, melbourne, monkey grip, non fiction, non fiction now conference, rmit, Robert Farquharson, storey hall, wheeler centre
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Don’t bless me father, for you have sinned.
I come from a long, long line of Irish Catholics. Several lines actually. There are some pagans in the mix, too, but we had less to do with That Side. Catholicism was our family’s thing. What did we do? We … Continue reading
Posted in catholic church, sex abuse
Tagged children, paedophile, paedophile priests, royal commission
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The man of the house.
The thought popped into my head the other day that it was November and so my younger nephew was 10 years and 10 months old. I was kneeling down gardening and I stopped pulling weeds and leaned back on my … Continue reading
Posted in family
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Writing the big apple.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy I signed into my Twitter account, and my eyes fell first onto a tweet from @TeriTynes. She had written : “I’d like to know more about the mental state of the local woman who … Continue reading
Posted in new york city, women, writers
Tagged blogs, dogs, helene hanff, hurricane sandy, nyc, teri tynes, travelling, walking off the big apple
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The women we are in real life.
Friday Night Lights fans are disgruntled. Some are downright furious. For the American Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney has now “borrowed” the great catch phrase of the television series, the-almost-a-blessing-but-perhaps-a-battle-cry heard before every one of the fictional Dillon Panthers’ games. … Continue reading
Posted in feminism, women
Tagged clear hearts full hearts can't lose, connie britton, fnl, friday night lights, mitt romney, tami taylor
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