Posts by Danielle
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Why this level of weasel?
I can only think that they are waiting to see which is the biggest bandwagon.
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Oh man, did we *all* cry reading this post? Hard out.
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I have no personal story to add (I don’t think I even had a school visit from her), but I was crushed when I read that she had died. I was given The Changeover to read in high school for English and devoured it all in one night. I, uh, also stole the book because I couldn’t bear to part with it. Margaret Mahy made me a criminal! I continued reading all her YA fiction and I credit her in large part with making me such a lover of YA in general.
Since becoming a parent I have rediscovered the books for littler children and I love them, particularly The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate. This is my favourite part (and it kinda chokes me up, truth be told):
“The little man could only stare. He hadn’t dreamed of the BIGNESS of the sea. He hadn’t dreamed of the blueness of it. He hadn’t thought it would roll like kettledrums, and swish itself on to the beach. He opened his mouth, and the drift and the dream of it, the fume and the foam of it never left him again.”
My older son is obsessed with A Lion in the Meadow and I’ve read it to him literally hundreds of times. (The photo is him at nearly two, “reading” it to himself, which seems appropriate for this thread.)
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I failed to represent NZ at all, didn't I? How about this:
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Hard News: The Music for Occasions, in reply to JacksonP,
It totally isn't a funeral without a funky song about coke-fuelled paranoia, amirite?
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I can't say I've ever given this much thought, because LA LA LA I AM NEVER DYING I CAN'T HEAR YOU MORTALITY DOESN'T EXIST. Ahem. But obviously:
Then something appropriately epic, which also turns into a dance party. Um...
The lullabye I sing to my children:
Sadness and fragility:
The reason I met my husband:
The most important life lesson I can impart:
And Cole Porter says it best:
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to FletcherB,
I always said my kid screeched "like a pterodactyl" until someone informed me that pterodactyls probably didn't screech at all and I was just brainwashed by the movies.
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Russell Brown,
Simon has given a good, measured account of himself there
It may be measured, but it doesn't really pass the logic test. At all.
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And to be not entirely facetious, who watches the endless hours of domestic and imported cooking and property unreality porn clogging prime televisual real estate? Who busts a collective gasket if they’re not getting fed mega-doses of Corrie Street?
You're describing me! Dear lord.
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Lilith __,
the thinking grandmother’s crumpet
Our very own Tom Jones.
