tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post9088048725729355337..comments2023-08-18T19:57:30.372+10:00Comments on humanities researcher: My Blog Goes BroadsheetThis old world is a new worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-44114950250187011052007-07-30T00:09:00.000+10:002007-07-30T00:09:00.000+10:00My wife and I read your article in the Sunday Age ...My wife and I read your article in the Sunday Age and I intended replying then but procrastination took over. <BR/><BR/>My wife, Pat, has had breast cancer and a masectomy and I knew that when she read your piece exactly which part would grab her; It was when you described your mother sewing the handkerchief which you took into surgery. I asked Pat what she thought of the article and she said, "ISam Grumonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10897992805662165882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-72974727441502428492007-06-19T22:31:00.000+10:002007-06-19T22:31:00.000+10:00Eileen, thanks for the alert. As you've seen, I've...Eileen, thanks for the alert. As you've seen, I've hopped in to the discussion at In the Middle, which is lively and fun, as always...<BR/><BR/>Alan, thank you for this. Your story reminds me once more that my own brush with ill-health has been so much less serious than many others'; but I do still agree that mortality -- our own, or that of those close to us -- does force us to think a little This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-34752532926652266162007-06-19T09:28:00.000+10:002007-06-19T09:28:00.000+10:00Hello Stephanie,My younger brother Andy, who nowwo...Hello Stephanie,<BR/><BR/>My younger brother Andy, who now<BR/>works in Hobart, gave me a link to<BR/>the Sunday Age's article, from<BR/>which, after a quick search, I came<BR/>to this blog.<BR/><BR/>I applaud this meaningful work in<BR/>words, that you do here. Our late<BR/>mother departed swiftly last year,<BR/>from fast brain cancer, but in our<BR/>coming to terms, grieving for her,<BR/>our Alan Heahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00915420875326951048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-35853954928163594732007-06-17T02:43:00.000+10:002007-06-17T02:43:00.000+10:00Stephanie--I've just written a post at In The Midd...Stephanie--I've just written a post at In The Middle, "Au Revoir Nos Vie Prive?", which relates to your various posts about "personalised blogging" and also plugs your blog as a whole in relation to a program that aired this week on National Public Radio on the supposed "end of the private self" [thanks, again supposedly] to Internet blogging, live-journaling, etc. Cheers, EileenEileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-5834454846214879502007-06-14T16:22:00.000+10:002007-06-14T16:22:00.000+10:00Just so you know, the opposite of awesomesauce is ...Just so you know, the opposite of awesomesauce is weaksauce.WhatLadderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11603489349164511704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-76284538803720083902007-06-14T12:52:00.000+10:002007-06-14T12:52:00.000+10:00Reading your article and then coming here to your ...Reading your article and then coming here to your blog probably makes me a hundred times more likely to think about breast cancer and empathise than seeing springwater with pink caps for sale or buying a pink ribbon on whatever day they get sold.<BR/><BR/>Admire the way you have turned your story of something in itself negative into something positive that readers can learn from and contribute toLisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13539062417425067194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-72230665453292868872007-06-14T11:32:00.000+10:002007-06-14T11:32:00.000+10:00Thanks, all. "Awesomesauce"!! how come I can never...Thanks, all. <BR/><BR/>"Awesomesauce"!! how come I can never think up great words like this? <BR/><BR/>And yes, Whitebait, looks like an interesting season for once. Must try and get to one more game this year to bid a fond farewell to the beautiful Sir James. (Still remember Sheedy describing him once as a Braveheart!)This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-37889066150555819142007-06-13T16:30:00.000+10:002007-06-13T16:30:00.000+10:00Great article, Stephanie, even if they did manage ...Great article, Stephanie, even if they did manage to mix it up a bit. The Bronti sisters seem to have created quite a stir.melihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10026675747253438229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-64925612975731364562007-06-12T17:20:00.000+10:002007-06-12T17:20:00.000+10:00Just adding my two cents about the article and you...Just adding my two cents about the article and your blog (but mainly your blog) being the awesomesauce. It's a pity about the formatting, but forewarned it isn't impossible to work out.WhatLadderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11603489349164511704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-21580915952396491782007-06-12T11:16:00.000+10:002007-06-12T11:16:00.000+10:00Whitebait has become a bit erratic in his newspape...Whitebait has become a bit erratic in his newspaper reading habits lately, Stephanie, so it was a delight to randomly buy Sunday's Age and find your terrific piece in there.<BR/><BR/>In fact Whitebait was almost as rapped by the article as he was on discovering a couple of posts ago that you are a Bombers supporter :-) The excellent things you learn via those incidental blog digressions indeed.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03208998233467831916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-33774969728226273112007-06-11T23:21:00.000+10:002007-06-11T23:21:00.000+10:00Definitely a spiral, upwards and out.And my goodne...Definitely a spiral, upwards and out.<BR/>And my goodness, what a hash they have made of that online - having read it first in the paper, I didn't reread it through after I found the link, I just sent it straight over to Kerryn without checking. One assumes these newspapers publish the same thing wherever they are, doesn't one? <BR/>They should fix that up for you pronto, it's not a very good jobgenevievehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02895689949182365454noreply@blogger.com