Panic Stations
Like sorting Lego into colours, listing your worries makes you feel like you’re making progress. In both cases this is an illusion. I’m...
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JESSICA DETTMANN
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jdettmann
- Aug 17, 2017
- 3 min
There Will Be Books
Curious George is a movie that can penetrate even the most noise-cancelling of headphones. Writing a novel in the same room as a...
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jdettmann
- May 15, 2017
- 4 min
Hashtag Mother’s Day
Just before dawn yesterday I had one of those very special nightmares where you wake, unable to breathe from the horror, saying to...
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jdettmann
- May 3, 2017
- 3 min
Stealth Health Ninja
It turns out this writing a book lark is harder than it looks and, like so many things in life, not made easier by having two small...
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jdettmann
- Mar 29, 2017
- 3 min
Jackhammers, Interrupted
I, sadly not a celestial being, had to remain here on the earth that quaked every day for eight or nine hours as the diggers ripped...
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jdettmann
- Jan 12, 2017
- 3 min
TWELVE Days of Christmas? Not On My Watch
Proper homemade gingerbread house that I had absolutely nothing to do with. Grandmothers are where it’s at. Good New Year to you, dear...
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jdettmann
- Jun 3, 2016
- 3 min
Who Will Rock Me?
We Will Rock You is a musical by Ben Elton, based on the songs of Queen. When arranging the tickets I made very sure Dad was aware that...
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jdettmann
- Jan 29, 2016
- 3 min
The First Rule of the Best Start Interview is Don’t Talk About the Best Start Interview
I was hoping the test hadn’t started yet. May Blossom has just been for her pre-starting-school chat with a kindy teacher, which is...
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jdettmann
- Nov 16, 2015
- 3 min
Ignorance Is Bliss
Apocalypse now, or have we time for another coffee before the end of days? ‘Why do I still have to go to kindy?’ May Blossom moaned  to...
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jdettmann
- Nov 2, 2015
- 2 min
Question Time
One morning – bloody early one morning – he asked me the following questions in the space of half an hour, which is how long it takes to...
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jdettmann
- Oct 19, 2015
- 4 min
A Very Peter Pan Birthday
Three weeks out she started saying, ‘I don’t want to hear it’s anyone else’s birthday before mine.’ Now we’re down to four days and she...
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jdettmann
- Aug 19, 2015
- 4 min
Sleep Like No-One’s Watching
Gusto refusing to participate in a dramatic re-enactment of the sleeping arrangements at our house. Honestly, never work with cats. It’s...
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jdettmann
- Jul 31, 2015
- 4 min
Waikiki? Your Guess Is As Good As Mine.
Waikiki at dawn. I like this place best between 4 and 6 am. Aloha from Hawaii, where I am finishing up a three-week lecture tour of the...
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jdettmann
- Apr 15, 2015
- 2 min
How Funny? Pants-Off Funny
Benny Hill is a cultural reference that is on its last legs, I’d say. I only recall it vaguely from my childhood, mostly because it...
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