Melinda Tognini
May 13, 2015
Levi’s Legacy
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This week we are grieving the loss of little Levi Wibberley, the beautiful Perth boy who has touched the lives of many, and whose story I shared as one of the very first posts on this blog. Levi was born with Krabbe disease, a rare degenerative disorder, and passed away in the early hours of Wednesday 6 May 2015, aged […]
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May 4, 2015
This Writing Life: Notes to Self
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Welcome to my contribution to the Writer Mama Blog Hop, (hosted by Sharon Bayliss) in which writers with small children answer the question, ‘Where do you find time to write?’ No matter how hard I press into this writing life, or how long I am on the journey, there are certain challenges I continue to come up […]
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April 12, 2015
Welcome to this month’s Six Degrees of Separation, a literary meme created by Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman in which we link a book to six others in any way that comes to mind. After months of beginning Six Degrees with books I’ve not yet read, April starts with one I have: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. […]
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March 16, 2015
Annabel Smith has created a disturbingly plausible world in her latest novel, The Ark, which is set later this century in a post peak oil Australia. An underground bunker, aka the Ark, has been established to preserve five billion seed specimens. As violence and lawlessness (known in the book as the Chaos) increase, 26 people consisting […]
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March 10, 2015
Welcome to the March edition of Six Degrees of Separation, a meme in which authors Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman choose a book, and we link it to six others in any way that comes to mind. This month, that book is Wild by Cheryl Strayed. As I’ve been reflecting on the 2015 Perth Writers Festival, and […]
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March 7, 2015
This Sunday, 8 March marks International Women’s Day, where we are encouraged to recognise the achievements of women, while calling for great equality. And it’s not only men who need to do their part, argues my sister-in-law, Gemma Tognini, a former television journalist, who founded and is now managing director of corporate communication and PR […]
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