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December 02, 2012

Green

December 02, 2012/ Mary-Rose MacColl
Green
It happens fast. I pull up my pajamas, press the button, a diamond shape, two tiny legs unfurling, kicking, whoosh. Gone. I stare down at the empty bowl. I’ve killed a frog. The frog was in the toilet.Read More
December 02, 2012/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
ego, mt tamborine, rocket frog, writing
October 26, 2012

They're mostly not strangers

October 26, 2012/ Mary-Rose MacColl
They're mostly not strangers

Soon after, our son started to have nightmares about the strangers who were going to come and put him in their car. He thought he would have to go and live with them.
 

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October 26, 2012/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
children, stranger danger, families, parenting
October 23, 2012

The writer's ego, ergo...

October 23, 2012/ Mary-Rose MacColl
The writer's ego, ergo...

I puffed out like a puffer fish and plastered my Number One Bestseller status all over Facebook anyway. And I rang my mother. She rang almost everyone on the planet. You probably got a call. 

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October 23, 2012/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
ego, In Falling Snow, writing, banff centre, four noble truths about writing, the writing life, Annie Dillard, Gail Sher
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