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Critical “To Do” List Before Conference

Maggie — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 12:16:58 +0000

I’ve just realised with something close to horror that it’s now only one teensy month until the Romance Writers of Australia conference 2015. Which is very exciting (can’t wait!) but also rather nervewracking (won’t know many people) and a little bit panic-inducing (too much to do, too little time). So . . . it’s time to...

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What Next?

Maggie — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:35:43 +0000

Dear God Thank you for the house sale (massive clean-up), and the house purchase (massive box-up), and the birthday party for Miss Four (massive mess-up), and the car purchase (massive stress-up), and the BIG fat mortgage/insurance/etc paperwork (massive loan-up), and the winter ills (massive health-down) . . . but did you have to give them...

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House Shifts and Other Sucky Stuff

Maggie — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:40:38 +0000

Sometimes I have the strongest feeling someone upstairs is laughing at me. They’re hanging about, devising crisis after crisis to throw at me, just for kicks. Then they watch me doing my headless chicken routine. Their latest idea: let’s make her shift house with only a week’s notice. What, she’s coping? Hmm. Let’s throw in...

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We Remember

Maggie — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:15:45 +0000

It seems incredible to me that ten years has already passed since 9-11 stopped being my friend’s birthday and became instead a symbol of terrorism. Ten years since I woke to images so horrifying, so emotionally overwhelming that I struggled to comprehend them. Ten years since I waited by the phone for news of our...

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Brace Yourself: It’s The C-Word

Maggie — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:03:57 +0000

Not cancer: Christmas. A word that conjures up such a range of emotions. Emotion 1. Surprise. Is it that time already? Emotion 2. Annoyance. The baubles and fake snow are cluttering shop windows, the piped music in lifts/malls/phone calls is Santa-themed, and the street decorations have appeared overnight. Do they really think we need reminding?...

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