The story so far
I'm from Adelaide, but I'm living in Abu Dhabi right now. One day, I saw a gold leaf four wheel drive. It made me cry.
My first novel, Black Dust Dancing, was published by Wakefield Press in March 2009. It looks like this:
Author Archives: tracy
The End
I am closing this blog. I will still be blogging, but not right now and not right here. I did write a long-winded post about how blogging has changed and I have changed and the ins and outs of why … Continue reading
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Forty three
I turned 43 last weekend. It seems important somehow. It has seemed to be a coming of age in the way that no other time, not 18 or 21 or 30 or even 40 has ever been. Perhaps it’s just … Continue reading
Posted in Dispatches, on being 43
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One evening
Last night, I was listening to Archie Roach while I wound some hanks of silk into balls. I don’t have a ball winder, so I have to use the backs of two of our upright chairs. I’m not a fan … Continue reading
a new year, a new blog
I’ve started a new blog to write about the things I read. a blog load of books I’m not quitting this blog, but the other one will be only about the things I read. I don’t think that means that … Continue reading
Posted in Reading
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Is it too late in the year to say, Happy New Year
I didn’t even think, until a lovely person left a comment this morning, that I had left things at an inappropriate pause. The term finished at school, the mister decided to drain his annual leave, we went away and had … Continue reading
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Skin cancer in a multicultural world
Scene: me walking into school. French woman: ‘What have you done to your face?’ Me: ‘Oh, I just had a skin cancer removed.’ French woman: ‘OMG, are you all right? Are you okay? OMG!’ Me: Explains difference between melanoma and … Continue reading
My brilliant career goes (even more) bung
It’s official. I am, career-wise, the unluckiest person you know. I am not simply ‘one of the unluckiest’ or the second unluckiest, or ‘yes, that’s certainly unlucky, but I know someone who…’ unlucky. On your list of ‘People I know … Continue reading
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This time next week, I will still be gorgeous
I finally got to my dermatologist’s appointment and it turns out that my dermatologist has spent considerable time in Adelaide visiting one of his friends who was working at the Institute for Something Highly Scientific on North Terrace. ‘It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogopera
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I’m crying, but in a good way
I was just fossicking about in my wordpress account and came across a private blog I kept for a few months a few years ago. It has, quite literally, taken my breath away to remember how it was to feel … Continue reading
One thing I don’t understand
I watched, via twitter, the build up to, and the passing of, the civil union legislation in Queensland. I felt bloody good about it really. For reasons. But there’s one thing by which I am utterly perplexed. Julia Gillard’s position … Continue reading
Posted in Dispatches
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