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Hunting Good Will: Revisited
[I wrote Hunting Good Will while waiting to bring our son Will home from Guatemala.... sometime in mid 2000. We finally came home with Will on September 11, 2000, one week before the Sydney Olympics...
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Is Fun. Is good. OK?
It is possible that it is illegal for someone my age to like Fun. They are a cool/hot/sick [can someone under 30 please insert appropriate word meaning "good"?] band upon whom I have recently stumbled....
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Hop hop hopping to Kangaroo Island
Sorry… lame, I know. Sorry. Sometimes it’s hard to resist playing the corny card. You may remember I recently got the opportunity to explore South Australia’s Kangaroo Island for SheSaid.com.au (see my...
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Book Review: The Wasp Factory
I am a big fan of Neil Cross and his brilliant, dark writing. It was through a comment on his Facebook page about being inspired by the Scottish author Iain Banks, now terminally ill, that I became...
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Love/Hate: Kidlet Birthday Parties
I have a on-going, complicated love/hate relationship with the kidlets’ birthday parties. I find them stressful and exhausting; probably because I don’t like children very much… they are unpredictable...
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Oh! MONA
No I’m not going to spout lyrical about best forgotten cover versions of inspid songs by ex-Neighbours’ stars. I am going to spout lyrical about Tasmania’s greatest un-natural treasure: MONA. The...
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[Instant Rewind #1]
I’ve just transferred the previous incarnation of DeepKickGirl – The Adventures of Deep Kick Girl Down Under – onto WordPress and to celebrate I will be revisiting some of my old posts for those who...
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[Instant Rewind #2] New York countdown is on
Today marks three months until I head off for the much anticipated Middle-Aged Women Gone (Not So) Wild in NYC trip. New York City with my sister and some of my very best besties. Heaven? Very close to...
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I bake, therefore I am #1: Apple Crumble Muffins
It’s funny that I have become somewhat known for my baking – certainly for the quantity, if not the quality – since I used to be a bake-a-phobic in the not-too-distant past. Looking back I actually...
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Fallacy of fantasy
Let’s take a sharp turn away from muffins and onto another topic I find fascinating. Fantasy. I have touched on this issue previously but now I’m going to get a bit adult about it. I want to take a...
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Faster Pasta #1: The One With The Smoked Salmon Tomato Cream Sauce
Whenever I am cooking pasta, as I was last night, I ponder why people who say they can’t cook don’t embrace pasta. I know these days it is possible to eat quite well and at reasonable cost without ever...
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Where the heart is
Illness has descended upon Casa DKG; an unidentified unwellness whereby the kidlets and I have various symptoms including headache, body aches, upset tummies and general crankiness. You might ask how...
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Motherhood Statements (revisited)
I have previously written about motherhood statements and current events in politics have made me think about this concept again. What’s a motherhood statement? Wiktionary defines it as such: “a “feel...
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Now you’re just somebody that I used to know
It is really bloody hard to write those words about the man you have spent almost twenty one years of your life with; the man you saw as your life partner, the father of your children, the one with...
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The hardest part
Because every day is getting a little easier I wanted to take a moment to note what has probably been the hardest part of this process of loss and grief. It’s what I’m calling the “phantom limb...
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Prelude: NYC
In 24 hours I’ll be on my way to the airport for the much anticipated trip to New York with my besties. I can’t believe it’s taken this long to be here and I can’t believe it’s actually here. It’s...
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Movie Review: The Place Beyond The Pines
I hadn’t bothered to read up about this film because I figured it had Ryan Gosling with no shirt and tattoos, what more did I need to know. So I started watching with no expectations. How rare to find...
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Kissing Frogs (part 1 – of many?)
So I’ve been back from NYC for almost a whole week. I Facebooked the NYC experience so not sure if I’ll ever get back here to update in any more detail. The title of this post relates to me deciding to...
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Free falling
I’ve been a bad little blogger and I’m sorry… it’s not that I haven’t had things to write about it, it’s just that I’ve been busy putting my emotional energy into other things like immersing myself in...
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My First… Blogging Challenge #1
Kerri over at Life & Other Crises has started a blogging challenge which I think will be quite interesting and I certainly need some motivation to get blogging again. Here is her post about the...
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