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About Me

I got my layout at Cleanupmyspace.com I am a Mum, an emerging writer, editor and fledgling publisher and recovering addict of busyness and sugar.I believe that the personal is actually the political; that the way we live our every day lives is the most important vehicle for change.After a tumultuous 18 months I am living the dream I've had since I was 10 - to just write!I am the Breastfeeding Editor at Type A Mom, Monday columnist at Write Antying, co-author of the ebook Reclaiming Sex After Birth: the survival guide, regular blogger at Writing with Passionate Abandon and Orgasmic Birth in Australia and the creator of the anthology Chinese Whisperings Get this FREE MySpace layout and more at MySpaceOrYours.net

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Adam Hills, Naomi Wolf, the boys from The Chasers War on Everything, Jens Albinus, Sheila Kitzinger, Mystic Medusa, my Great Grandmother Jemima Turnball, my amazing business partner Paul Anderson (because we've never met in person!)

My Blog

Im published

My story DEMON LOVER been chosen to be part of the online fiction section of the Getting Hitched website.  This is exciting for me as its the first time I’ve been PAID for my writing.&...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:56:00 GMT

Housework as an artifact of good mothering?

Housework - its something I struggle with. I rage against it, I sulk from it, I walk around in denial of it and then finally I give in to it. I've never been a neat person, per se. I'm a horizontal fi...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:26:00 GMT

NaNoWriMo Extract

They sat surrounded by large pieces of butchers paper, crayons, textas, red wine bottles and half full glasses.  It was Friday night and they'd pushed back the furniture and were sitting on the l...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:45:00 GMT

Anger, Synchroncitiy and the Spiral

My work has been lucky enough to find a home in the Goddess Associations In Australia's November newsletter.  Small beginnings I know, but it is circulated among a group of women who I revere ......
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:59:00 GMT

The story thus far ...

The following are two short stories from the Write Stuff websites Fiction Friday meme.  It is the slow build of a character in anticipation of the start of NaNoWriMo next week .... Film in a cani...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:19:00 GMT

Spring Editorial - Down to Birth

In 2004 I wrote: "To understand where you want to go in life and why you want to go there, it is important to consider where you have already been  as it is often influential, whether you realise it ...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:14:00 GMT

Fiction Friday - I’m not sentimental

At some point you have to draw a line in the sand and say 'enough is enough'. At some point you have to admit an ending is needed, necessary and you will not go on without it. At some stage you have t...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:28:00 GMT

Friday Fiction:bye baby bunting

"Bye baby bunting, Daddy's gone a-hunting""Bye bye love, bye bye sweet caress.""Bye bye Miss American Pie.""Bye Bye black bird""I give up!""One to me - your turn now."With a sigh they both fell back d...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:54:00 GMT

Phobia

From my writers blog for Fiction Friday http://jodicleghorn.blogspot.com/    By the way - what phobia's do you have.  I have a fear of heights and a fear of telephones (that waxes ...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:46:00 GMT

The Morning Pages:dousing the wicked witch

When I read about something, that glowingly and gushingly proports to be wonderful and life changing, I'm often a little reticient to believe it. I like to try before I buy - or in these terms, try b...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:21:00 GMT