Category: Author life
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Ask me about my Dad.
It was my Dad’s 73rd birthday on Monday the 15th. I walked through the day in a haze, with the grief of losing my Dad fresh in my mind. I think when you lose someone you love, there will never be a day where you think “yes, I’m okay with this”. Never. What I want…
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Posted just now on Medium – “On this Mother’s Day”
My Mom is Filipino — born and raised in Cebu. Because Mom grew up on dirty streets and struggled through poverty; trying to make money first by selling liquid pre-made coffee in plastic bags, then going on to work long shifts in a nearby cafe, she’s as tough as nails. My Mom is the strongest person I…
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Trying my hand at a fictional short story
I want to send in an application for a short story competition here in Australia so I’m giving short stories a go. Have a read over this one, guys – and please give me feedback if you can. THE LIE I’m too cocky for my own good, that’s what my main problem is. Even with…
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Our 9th wedding anniversary ❤️
I saved up for ages to hire out a beautiful beach villa for Alun and I to celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary in. I saw “Studio 9” for hire at Eagle Bay, which piqued my interest because we’d not been there before. It looked amazing, so I booked it. Here are the pics: Once we’d…
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The life of Janet
Hey hey, just me here. Ugh life has been HECTIC in the last few months. I’ve been concentrating on working hard, supporting Mom and Alun and writing paid articles for Medium so I haven’t blogged on WordPress as much as I would have liked to. Sorry! I like WordPress because I don’t have to be…
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Medium is changing the way I write my book
It’s been humbling trying to make my way on “Medium” because there are literally MILLIONS OF BETTER WRITERS out there. I read so many incredible pieces of writing on there and I think “Woah – that’s amazing. I can’t compete with that”. I know I can’t compete…yet. YET is the key word here. Because maybe…
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“Just kidding”
Be prepared, long rant ahead. Joking. I’m all for it. I love being silly with Alun and my friends. Dad used to tell the worst “Dad jokes”. I wanted so badly to have no reaction, so I didn’t encourage him, but I couldn’t help but smile, which would make Dad cheer and then we’d both…
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My birthday 🎂
Yesterday was my birthday. Alun hates birthdays but made a big effort to make mine special, bless him. I woke up to pink balloons in the living room and 3 birthday cards from Alun! Three!!! Each one felt heavy. He’d put scratchie tickets in all of them and $200 in the main card. I’m sooo…
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Sadness brings creativity.
Unfortunately, when I’m happy and travelling along well, I’m at my least creative. I don’t know why that is. Only when I’m sad do the memories bubble up… Like sitting on the living room floor with Jayne and sharing the intimacy of having one earbud in each of our ears as we listened to a…
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My money doesn’t jiggle jiggle, it folds :)
This month’s Medium earnings: Not bad from my 1st payment of $10.25USD…I’m slowly getting there!
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"I get knocked down, but I get up again" 