Kirsten Alexander
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Birthday
- September 23
- Bio
- I've worked as a nonfiction book editor, web editor, magazine writer and copywriter.
I've put my scant published work on this website: www.kirstenalexander.com. I'm currently writing a book about meat. It might take a while - we vegetarians have notoriously low energy levels. That's okay because my research has led me to meet a scarily smart naturopath and an amusing GP, and to learn that there is a meat recipe called Bacon Explosion.
MY RECENT POSTS
- How Edward Helped Me Out
October 12, 2009 04:23AM - Am I Making Myself Sick?
June 18, 2009 10:30PM - The Lost City of Z
June 17, 2009 01:02AM - Poor people at the pool
March 26, 2009 10:44PM - Why newspapers are now dead to
me
March 15, 2009 09:58PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I enjoyed reading your
list of jobs. Strangely I was
talking
to a friend
yesterda…”
November 01, 2009 11:00PM - “Your story brought back
memories of when my son was
born.
Like you, I was
healthy…”
October 26, 2009 06:08PM - “I swaer to god, the rest
of the world looks at this and
is
gob-smacked,
astounded…”
October 15, 2009 07:18PM - “I recall a friend
warning me not to be too
excessive with the
first
tooth. 'Look…”
October 13, 2009 09:26PM - “I love these pictures -
thank you. There's no snow
where I
live (Melbourne,
Aust)…”
October 12, 2009 09:29PM
Kirsten Alexander's Links
How Edward Helped Me Out
I’ve just discovered something and would like to share it, and to know if others have had the same experience.
This afternoon, at three-thirty, I drove to my son’s primary school to collect him and his friend Edward, who was coming to our house to play for a… Read full post »
Am I Making Myself Sick?
My doctor called me a few days ago, and while it wasn't with news that I was going to die, it wasn't great.
He'd received the results from my blood test, a follow-up to a similar 'check all vitamins and minerals' test about ten months ago. I'd asked for that… Read full post »
The Lost City of Z
This is a review of The Lost City of Z that I've written for ABC Radio National's Book Show. I thought some of you might enjoy this book. It's honestly fascinating.
In April 1925 explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett set off into
the Amazon jungle, highly skilled but ill-equipped, all… Read full post »
Poor people at the pool
I live in Melbourne, Australia, with my partner and two sons. One
week this summer, when the weather was relentlessly hot, my family
and I spent Monday to Thursday at our local public pool. This was
no hardship – our house is an oven on scorching summer days
and we all… Read full post »
Newspapers have been important in my life so it's been a heavy and significant decision to stop buying them.
As a child and teenager, I lived with parents for whom reading the daily paper was as much a part of the morning routine as black coffee, short showers, and yelling… Read full post »
Why American politics?
I just read on the Huffington Post that Michelle Obama is getting bad press for wearing sleeveless dresses. So now I'm posting not about her clothes, the cool weather, or whatever exercise leads to such great arms, but on that fact that I read this.
Like millions of people across… Read full post »
This is the Future: Notes from the Pros
I want to share some information I was given this week.
The appropriateness of this is a little unclear. My employer paid for me to go to a four-hour lecture conducted by the directors of Future Lab, two English guys who are guns at trend forecasting. I know this because… Read full post »
Work to live, live to work?
Last night I met a woman who told me this:
She rises at 6am, is at the pool by 6:30, works from 7:30am until 3pm.
Her husband takes their two daughters to school every day. She collects them from school at 3:30pm, and is with them until they go to… Read full post »
Seven things I know about beauty
One of my part-time jobs (I juggle several employers, like many people do) is writing for a skincare company. It's a credible company - I won't name it, but I'm cynical about the whole 'beauty' industry and all the hideous ways it creates, encourages and then profits off women's insecurities, so… Read full post »
The heat that drove people to madness, crime and violence in Victoria last week got worse last Saturday. And with the scorching heat - the hottest single day this state has experienced since the 1930s - came fire.
As I write, the death toll from the weekend fires is 130. That… Read full post »
Yesterday, about 10 minutes' away from my home, a man threw his four-year-old daughter off one of the highest bridges in the city.
When I heard this news, I was driving home from the supermarket, my six-year-old strapped into his seat in the back, my older son safely delivered to… Read full post »
My husband's shiny mistress
My partner brought his new love when we went on a family holiday to New Zealand last month. She’s sleek, perky, well connected, and loves to be stroked, all of which makes her a terrifying competitor. But ‘she’ isn’t quite right. His new friend has the attributes of his prefer
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The Last Loud Prejudice
I wrote this article when George W. was in office, for a newspaper magazine that decided against running it when the editor told me he was feeling ‘a bit nervy about the politics of it’. Fair call on his part. I probably missed the mark for his particular magazine (a very
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My Dog the Monster
I’ve been down this road before. Twice, with insomniac babies. I tried to change their hardwiring, adjust their behaviour patterns, retrain them, become the driver in the relationship – I tried to control them in order to keep my sanity. This time I’m trying to control my dog.
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