This podcast is a few days late or a couple of days early, depending on how you look at it. It’s also not the same podcast I originally recorded. This week I
On Monday it rained and so I hopped onto the treadmill, instead of heading down to the bush tracks for a run. Oh my! Treadmill running is deadly boring. I am sure
“What are you reading?” I ask my ten year old daughter, Gemma-Rose. She looks up from her Kindle and says, “Bleak House.” I remember reading this Charles Dickens book a couple of
“Give me a word,” I say. My daughter Sophie looks up from her book and says, “Light.” “How about the word ‘star’?” suggests Gemma-Rose. Just as I’m mentally storing away these two
My daughter Imogen has a passion for writing. “When did you start writing?” I ask. “I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t writing.” My second daughter was writing stories long before
Sometimes a book isn’t nearly long enough. “I wish the story didn’t have to end,” someone sighs, as I close our latest read-aloud book. “I want to know what happens next.” “There’s
It rained. It hailed. Lightning flashed, and then a huge ball of thunder rolled across the sky. We all looked up from our computers just in time to see Nora, our puppy,
I take the girls to the library and they return with dozens of books. I hope they’re going to keep the girls happy for a very long time. But a few days
“What shall we do together today?” I ask my girls. “Can you read to us, please Mum?” So we settle on the sofa side-by-side. Gemma-Rose hands me our current read-aloud book,and I
My daughter Gemma- Rose and I are having some mother-daughter time. We sit at one of the wobbly white tables in the shopping mall and sip our drinks. I have a coffee.
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