Yesterday Mia Freedman wrote a post that upset a lot of my twitter friends. Given my twitter friends are a socially aware bunch and given I consider myself a socially aware person too, I headed over to Mamamia expecting to be outraged. But I wasn’t. On a rational level I agreed with everything Mia said. I didn’t feel Delta Goodrem was being racist in tweeting a photo of four guys … [Read more...]

On Tuesday I woke up to the dreadful news that two bombs had gone off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. I flicked on ABC News 24 and immediately following their report on Boston was a report about a bombing in Baghdad. Two dead (at the time) in Boston, 10 dead in Baghdad. Immediately I felt shame at the contrast between my reactions to the two different bombings. And I felt shame when … [Read more...]

Yesterday when I woke to the news of the bombing at the Boston Marathon I was - like most - shocked to my core. And also chilled to the bone. I have run three marathons myself and at each of those finish lines I have had loved ones standing there in the crush waiting for me. I don't have the words to summarise all the emotions running through my head in the wake of yesterday, but my lovely … [Read more...]

Last night I was pretty excited to sit down and watch the first ever all-female panel on Q&A. Why wouldn’t I be? It was a rare opportunity to listen to five smart and articulate women share their thoughts on topics that (quite naturally – it being an all-female panel and all) had a feminist slant. I really enjoyed the show. It was nice not to have people speaking over the top of … [Read more...]

Dear diary Well … it’s been a busy time on the interwebs today! So much so that I got barely any work done. Oh well, tomorrow will be a catch up day I suppose. But forget tomorrow – this entry is about today! As always I kicked things off with a visit to my favourite online forum (HRW – Hate Readers of the World). I often wonder at the special kind of genius it took to create this … [Read more...]

Never ever set up the baby’s room any earlier than 1-2 weeks out from your due date. Just don’t do it. I applied this rule with my first-born and other than one government client deciding to get feedback from a ‘few key stakeholders’ four days before J was due (on a piece of artwork they’d approved and signed off on the previous week!), there were no unexpected, last minute, … [Read more...]

For a long time (ie 34 of my 35 years on this earth) I didn’t identify with the label ‘feminist’. And the more ‘how very dare you’ articles I read from feminists lambasting high profile women who also didn’t identify with the term, the more I felt the need to distance myself from it. The final straw that broke my back was reading the *Jezebel article from which this post’s title … [Read more...]

Well I have just finished watching the single most baffling press conference in the history of man. Some quick background: Last year at the London Olympics the entire Australian Swimming team performed well below expectations. Post-Olympics it became clear that there had been a shift in the way the team had been managed in recent years and this had affected the general happiness and … [Read more...]

It's been one of those funny months where I feel like I've barely written a word yet it appears I have actually written much more than a few. Maybe it's because I've been writing everywhere but here! So in case you've missed it ... here's where I have been: Over at Kidspot I am interviewing inspirational mothers about how they manage that tricky balance between their passions and their children. … [Read more...]

So these last 19 weeks have been rather anxious ones but with each successive 'all good' scan I have started to believe more and more that we were actually going to be having a baby in April next year. Finally today, the final hurdle (in my mind) - the 19 week scan. And Baby Exeter passed with flying colours. Jaden has been wanting a baby sister ever since his cousin Nikki got a baby sister so … [Read more...]