Author: JulieD

Grammar Police

And now we’re watching Barney, where one of the little monsters is singing, Mr Moon tonight Keep on shining real bright For me. And I’m screaming at the TV. “LEEE! Real-LEEE! Bright-LEEEE! Please!” And you just know the lyric sheet spelled it ‘tonite’. It’s official. I’m a curmudgeon.

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Working Mother

So my call came; we did the preliminary catching up and had just started on the business at hand when my cell phone started bleating. I knew, of course, straight away. I didn’t even have to check the number to know it was the school…

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I’m making plans to run away from my family on Wednesday, and go into Philly to hear Neil Gaiman read from his latest novel. I dipped my toe in this water earlier this year, when I spent a fun Sunday afternoon being forced to laugh uproariously by The Yarn Harlot, and now I want more.… Continue reading Untitled

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My Twinn

I always found dolls creepy, but this takes the cake! Isn’t there something unseemly about instilling this level of vanity in your child? Or am I old-fashioned?

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Emmy Who?

I knew I didn’t watch much TV, but I just looked at the results of the Emmy Awards (I had no idea they were happening) and realised that I haven’t seen most of the shows. Not even a moment of them. Of the shows listed I’ve seen full episodes of…four. One of them Lost, which… Continue reading Emmy Who?

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Today's Roster

OK, so today has gone: get the kids up and out, walk them to school, walk back; write a little (and I mean a little) on the novel; get some great ideas for magazine articles, thrash them out, write them out, research markets. Pick up one kid from school, go to the library, do some… Continue reading Today's Roster