Beauty Tip of the Week

Pluck your eyebrows completely, and redraw them further up your forehead. This will give the illusion of interest in whatever the hell people are rabbiting on at you about THIS time. Without risking wrinkles by raising your eyebrows yourself.

Who’s the Daft Bint??

I decided that, as a fairly permanent dweller in Queensland, I should pay attention to the election circus.
Crikey!
Either these clowns are dropping balls they’re supposed to be juggling, or my maths skills are deteriorating faster than I thought possible.
I followed Anna Bligh’s twitter. OK, fairly quiet, but occasional tidbits of info. Like this -
Apprenticeship [...]

Acts of God

The bushfires down in Victoria have been a huge tragedy. Lives lost, communities shattered, people in mourning all over the world. Every now and then I turn away from yet another news report, another Twitter, another blog post about friends lost, people dead, towns burnt to the ground.
Something I didn’t turn away from was a [...]

Woohoo!

As a writer, I lack self-confidence.
Like, hugely.
While I enjoy my own fiction, and in fact have a good enough opinion of it to try to get fans, I’m very wary of getting reviews of any type. Because I know it has flaws. Some of them I just can’t do much about right now, like the [...]

Hiatus

(I love that word)
Bubba Boy was sick. Right in the middle of an oh-my-god-gotta-get-this-out-the-door project release at work. GAH. Talk about stress.
Then I got sick.
Then Bubba Boy got sick again – and this time we got a little worried and took him off to the doctor and found out it was…
CROUP.
Holy crap.
I was brought up [...]