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From the monthly archives: June 2011

Write on Wednesday: Two Fat Ladies

By Susan On June 29, 2011 · 9 Comments

Write on Wednesday is a weekly writing exercise hosted by Gill from Ink Paper Pen. This week’s challenge is to take the 8th line from the 8th page of the 8th book on my bookshelf and use that sentence as a writing prompt for five minutes of writing. I’ve selected the 8th book [...]

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Sunday Session: 26 June 2011

By Susan On June 26, 2011 · 4 Comments

I’m joining Thea of Do I Really Wanna Blog for her Sunday Session.

I’ve been thinking quite a bit recently about how I’ve allowed myself to fade into the background in recent years. I heard the Bachelor Girl song Permission to Shine recently on the radio and the lyrics really fit in [...]

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Write on Wednesday: I Remember…

By Susan On June 22, 2011 · 15 Comments

I missed last week’s Write on Wednesday exercise, but I’m back on board this week. Write on Wednesday is hosted by Gill at Ink Paper Pen. This week, the challenge is to write for five minute using the prompt ‘I remember’.

Co-incidentally, I posted last night at my blog Living [...]

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I Just Thought I’d Call To Tell You…

By Susan On June 20, 2011 · 12 Comments

My mother often begins phone calls with ‘I just thought I’d call to tell you…’ She generally doesn’t have anything particularly traumatic to share. Often the sentence is finished with something along the lines of ‘…that I’ve run out of milk so you should pick some up on your way over if you want [...]

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Achieve your Writing Dreams via Reality TV

By Susan On June 17, 2011 · 22 Comments

Yet another Masterchef contestant bites the dust tonight, disappointed that she won’t be ‘achieving my food dream’ by winning the popular reality TV program. ‘I’ve put three years into this show’ she claimed with tears in her eyes. If only there was some way for people who want to work in the food industry to [...]

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Take Time to Smile

By Susan On June 14, 2011 · 10 Comments

In a bit of a funk today. I’ve faffed about and achieved very little. I started the day with a huge To Do List and it remains unsullied by a single checkmark or crossed-out entry.

So for those who, like me, feel like the day has not lived up to its potential, I offer you [...]

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Book Review: Letters to Leonardo by Dee White

By Susan On June 9, 2011 · 2 Comments

Summary (Walker Books)

A unique and powerful story about a fifteen year old boy who tries to deal with his mother’s mental illness by writing letters to Leonardo da Vinci.

On his fifteenth birthday, Matt receives a card from his mother – the mother he grew up believing was deceased. Feeling betrayed by both [...]

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Write on Wednesday: Self-Portrait in Words

By Susan On June 8, 2011 · 11 Comments

I’m taking part in Write on Wednesday, a weekly writing challenge hosted by Gill of Ink Paper Pen.

This week’s challenge is to write a Self-Portrait.

How are you?

A flippant question, often asked without thought. The questioner mentally moving on before the answer is given. Today I was asked [...]

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30 Day Photography Challenge: Day 5 & 6 – High & Low

By Susan On June 7, 2011 · 3 Comments

I’m a little behind, so I’m putting Day 5 and 6 of White Peach Photography‘s 30 Day Photo Challenge into the same post. Both photos were inspired by my children’s music practice this morning, so I guess that they kind of work together anyway.

Day 5 – High Angle

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