RISK TAKING July 21, 2014July 21, 2014Maria 1 A few of weeks ago I watched Alice Walker and Alexis Wright captivate an audience during the Sydney Writer’s Festival with their reflections [...]
SOCIAL INJUSTICES AND SONG LYRICS April 24, 2014Maria Comment A couple of weeks ago, for homework, my daughter needed to find a song with lyrics that aptly represent social inequity, injustice, environmental [...]
MIXED MESSAGES ARE DRIVING ME NUTS April 18, 2014Maria 1 So if you live in Australia you would well know that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Wills & Kate) along with young [...]
GO HOME YOU GREASY WOG April 1, 2014April 1, 2014Maria Comment Can’t tell you how many times I heard those words uttered to me when I was a kid in primary GO HOME YOU [...]
MY WORDS AND MELISSA DOYLE’S ALPHABET SOUP March 24, 2014Maria Comment For the past week or so I’ve been mulling over in my head a post I’d like to write about. Values and belief [...]
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2014 March 8, 2014March 9, 2014Maria 5 For this IWD I have one question. Now I know plenty was said about Miley Cyrus and her twerking of 2013 and how [...]