by Jackie Bailey | Feb 22, 2010 | Random insights, women who write
I just read this article on the SMH. It’s not often that I get excited about an article on SMH (except maybe to cuss out their tabloidal focus, or their lack of research except for surfing the blogs and the wires). But this article about the...
by Jackie Bailey | Feb 11, 2010 | Random insights
Has anyone ever read their spam? I just checked through the spam messages for this blog, making sure that someone didn’t actually get filtered out merely because of a dodgy email address. Can I just say, spam has come a long way since the early days of emails...
by Jackie Bailey | Feb 9, 2010 | women who write
I’ve been reading Edith Wharton, and it’s rather depressing. Everything is rather something (or’uther). Not to be too flippant – I am sure the characters in Glimpses of the Moon really felt every bit as miserable and desperate as they...
by Jackie Bailey | Feb 9, 2010 | Everyone's daily horoscope
It’s a week for opening windows and letting the rain gust in. You’ll always have more towels; but how often do you get the chance to let pure, cool water from the air moisten your lips and curl your hair becomingly over a steaming cup of tea, brewed to...
by Jackie Bailey | Feb 2, 2010 | Random insights
My husband and I have started what appears to be a life-long project: renovating our house. To get us up and running, we invited a bunch of friends over for two weekends in January to have fun with power tools. Our object: to paint the doors and kitchen, fix the...
by Jackie Bailey | Jan 5, 2010 | Everyone's daily horoscope
Hale and well met, my fellow journeywomen and men of the sometimes paved, sometimes rubbly road to all our favourite things. This year will see you starting ebullient, smelling of good, sweet caramel (not the cheap sort), your self-sure smile lacing your determined...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 14, 2009 | Random insights
I have a misty brain today. have been looking for random insights, but short of telling you how rubbish the flu of pigs was (my excuse for not blogging these past few weeks), I find my brain a rather dull, confused place to live. So I will tell you all about my new...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 14, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
A week of playful indecision. Forget pronouns: cut straight to the chase. You like me, or you don’t. You want to be somewhere for Christmas, or not. You would rather be wearing perfume and bells than socks and sensible shoes; or you find greatest peace of...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 17, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
And what a week it is! Friends from out of town will blow you away with how much they care about you, and there you were, wondering if anyone still remembered your hopeful face. Chocolate coated tulips are just the beginning of their imaginative ways of telling you...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 12, 2009 | Random insights
I was just thinking… If we don’t have to remember anything any more, because we can just google it, how much space does that free up in our brains for more important, patent-producing work? Like, I don’t know: nutting out all the calculations...
