When you live with anxiety, you never really live
In 2011, I spent the entire year with a headache. Tired of the pain, I went to our family medical clinic sure I would be diagnosed…
In 2011, I spent the entire year with a headache. Tired of the pain, I went to our family medical clinic sure I would be diagnosed…
By Karen Charlton We’re all moving on to the internet and in this global village, we have so many Joneses to keep up with. You mightn’t…
By Karen Charlton Our six year old son is acing grade one. Dropping him off in the classroom yesterday, his teacher stopped me to tell me…
Post by Gill Harrison My creative writing lecturers always stressed the writer’s role as researcher. They told us to record stories, collect words, gather conversations, chop…
Post by Karen Charlton Hamish is in my office, discovering all these books I’d forgotten I had. Rupert Bear: a Noddy book that belonged to my…
Post by Karen Charlton Daily Life has announced today Australia’s Most Influential Female Voices of 2012. It’s an impressive list of talented women who use their…
I’m sitting in the overhanging atrium of the public library cafe, surrounded by glass louver windows. I’ve just been handed a coffee by the sour barista,…
Newspapers are an institution, like the corner milk bar and its one cent lollies. It broke my heart a little when Fairfax announced they would be…
The other night, after finishing his school readers, 6-year-old Louis picked up Oliver Jeffers’ Incredible Book Eating Boy and we folded ourselves into his single bed,…
The internet – and the world in general – often leaves me both over and underwhelmed. It’s a struggle to find things special anymore, as everything…
We’re in a food court in Frankston. A blind man uses his white cane to sword fight through the crowd of chairs and slows to get…
Today Mr Karen and I helped our nieces and nephew bury their Nonno. Joe was 84, and their first grandparent to die. Many family and friends…