Rachel Barr
CategorySomething about Offal and Meringues
We were in a town of which Lonely Planet would later write: ‘there are no valid reasons to visit’, and I would mostly agree. Unless you ha..
Something about silence
Silence
Making me squirm
Growing fears of abandonment
Exaggerating inability
Providing space for chores to be listed
This isn’t thera..
Something about finding gold in an op shop
I’m the kind of girl who would prefer to spend a large portion of the food budget in an op shop and go hungry for the rest of the week. I ..
Something about Anchorman
In the first year of our marriage, Michael had a Husband of the Year idea that we would get out of town for one weekend a month. Of course..
Something about deliberately underachieving
I’m a typical school mum.
We accidently get up later than we should to enable the morning to run smoothly. Most of the time.
Our kid..
Something about cultural fads
A curious thing happened around the time Michael and I got married. At this stage of life, it was observed that one of my idiosyncrasies w..
Something about a famous idiot
In all the blah, blah, blah of the week there was one phrase in a song that refused to leave my head.‘Mercy waits where sinners fall.’
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Something about regret
In 1990 I bought a lot of new dresses. It was the year I turned 19, and I went to the weddings of 16 friends that year.
By the end of t..
Something about sand dunes
About a year ago I did something no one saw coming. My sister and parents have never known me to do such a thing. Even my husband shook hi..
Something about getting in a boat
Everyone who knows me knows that I’m totally up for a fad addiction. When I love something, you’re gonna hear about it. A sample, inexhaus..