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    Practices of Parenting

    by Lisa February 10, 2012
    February 10, 2012

    A blogger I read regularly, Sarah Bessey, has been hosting a Practices of Parenting Carnival this week, where she invited readers to submit posts on their practices of parenting via …

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    Looking Like Love: A Letter To My Parents

    by Lisa September 29, 2011
    September 29, 2011

    It’s been five months since I stepped off the plane from Asia, roundly pregnant at 28 weeks, and saw you both there waiting for me and smiling. The hills here …

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    Dear Dad, Love Dominic

    by Lisa September 4, 2011
    September 4, 2011

    Dear Dad, Happy first Father’s Day! It’s too bad that you’re in Laos and I’m in Australia on this day, but when we were up together this morning at 3am …

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    It takes a village

    by Lisa August 18, 2011
    August 18, 2011

    I wrote the following on Tuesday. It’s now Thursday. C’est la vie at the moment… This time last week I was still two hours and 15 minutes from giving birth. …

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    Family talk about the memoir

    by Lisa June 16, 2011
    June 16, 2011

    It started shortly after I arrived here four weeks ago. Mum was asking me where I was up to with my next book, and I told her that my agent, …

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    Koi maan luuk (or, “I am pregnant”)

    by Lisa January 28, 2011
    January 28, 2011

    Koi maan luuk was the first Lao phrase I learned in the new year, and you would have already known this piece of news for at least a month if …

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