Archive for February, 2006

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

expat or immigrant?

As you can see I’m still thinking about the whole expat thing and Michael and I were starting to wonder how the term ‘immigrant’ fits into the whole argument.
Well the blonde librarian put it very nicely in an email. I thought I should really put this on my blog as it adds a whole new [...]

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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

am I or am I not?

I haven’t been writing anything lately and that that was partly due to our family going away, me deciding that a lunch time nap might be the better option (to be energetic enough for my two monkeys in the arvo … though today I’ve decided that a cuppa will have to do) and me reading [...]

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Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

books, glorious books!

I Read this book just the other day by Mem Fox, a brilliant children’s book author and literacy consultant as well as literacy professor (not that that gives her greater credibility, but I just love her stuff).
I found the book truly inspiring … maybe cause it says what I’ve wanted to hear anyway “Go ahead, [...]

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