It is traditional here at Charlotte’s Web to review the past year in blogging by posting the first lines from the first post of every month. Having scrolled through my 2011 posts, one thing is clear to me: life took over from blogging this year. After moving house in January, I spent many long hours revising [...]
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2011 in First Lines
Posted in 2011 Goals, Cafe Society, Feminism, Going back to work, HIV, Leaving South Africa, Life in Heidelberg, Living in Germany, Revising, Running, Sadness, Voice, World AIDS Day, Writing, tagged 2011 Review on December 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Season’s Greetings
Posted in Christmas, Living in Germany, Snow on December 22, 2011 | 7 Comments »
To all my blog readers, old and new, I wish you a happy Christmas season, surrounded by family, friends, fabulous food and a mountain of new books. See you on the other side!
The Marcus Aurelius Meme
Posted in Babies, Family, Friendship, Fun, Gifts, Humour, Marriage, Memes, tagged Litlove, the Marcus Aurelius Meme on December 13, 2011 | 5 Comments »
One of the tacit themes of Balthasar’s Gift is that everyone we meet, whether we like them or not, has something to teach us. It’s an adage I strongly believe in and try to remember, though not always with success. In novels, we like to see protagonists learning and achieving something with that knowledge – [...]
World AIDS Day 2011: Are There Any Good News Stories?
Posted in AIDS, HIV, World AIDS Day, tagged Avert, health care workers, Noah's Orphans, World Aids Day 2011 on December 1, 2011 | 6 Comments »
The theme of today’s World AIDS Day is ‘Getting to Zero’ (zero new infections; zero discrimination; zero AIDS-related deaths)’. While we all know that the statistics are devastating and sad, and that we are a long way from zero, we are slowly winning the fight against HIV/AIDS. I tried to hunt down some good news stories. [...]
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