Monthly Archives: February 2009

A MYSTERIOUS LETTER

By sophie | February 27th, 2009
I wasn’t sure whether to be amused or baffled by this. I settled for fractions of both. It was a week or so ago that Mum handed me this envelope she’d opened,  and that is ME riding my bike by the river. It’s so surreal. The photographer was identified only by a computer-generated name on the [...]
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PRINCE HENRI PART 5: OLIVE IN ASTRONOMY CLUB

By sophie | February 25th, 2009
Princess Olive was in her room when she heard Octavius slam the door. She went into the corridor and found both Octavius, Prince Henri and Princess Caroline in the corridor. Henri was holding a silver spoon. “I tell you, it’s an Hermes spoon, and I ate with it first!” said Henri. “I tell you, it’s from my [...]
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THE BEAUTIFUL BLISS

By sophie | February 21st, 2009
So, I’m just about busting out of my skin with blessed happiness. How does one get happy? Golly, it sneaks up on you, and I suspect it has something to do with being PRESENT. Present to the past, present to the future, but fully, whole-heartedly in the presently grounded nowness of this very moment. It [...]
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WRITING FROM NY, PUBLISHED IN PERTH

By sophie | February 20th, 2009
Anozzer article for my friends! Oui, c’est excellente! I went to this show in New York last September for Silver magazine with my good friend Troy who I envisage as the Andre Leon Talley to my Anna Wintour. We had a great time. I rolled a cigarette from our seats while we waited, it was [...]
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I WILL LEAVE YOU NEVER

By sophie | February 18th, 2009
The most decadently heinous love song played as I drove down the freeway last night, and as the orange glow and outlets, train stations, factories & darkened car yards fell past my car, I felt myself snapped back to Los Angeles, hurtling down the road marked 10 at 2am towards Santa Monica from Los Feliz. [...]
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ELEGANT RENEGADE

By sophie | February 17th, 2009
More from Summer, Fall, Summer. “My name was Olive, and they’d baptized me on the eighth level of the Hotel Westminster in Paris. I was moved after birth to the countryside, grew up in the thicket and bramble, but would soon spend my teenage years in the city. I wasn’t too fond of the countryside, but [...]
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QUOTE OF THE DAY OR CENTURY

By sophie | February 15th, 2009
“Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.” – Lois McMaster Bujold Here is a secret glimpse of a present I’ve been making for you. My man has been helping me put it together. Golly, love is an incredible [...]
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MAGNETIC MUMBLING

By sophie | February 11th, 2009
At the moment I don’t answer to anyone, I just write whenever I want, and whatever I want. So with this in mind, I had an urge to share an excerpt from my new book, tentatively called Summer Fall Summer which is still in the process of being ever so eloquently, stumblingly, written.  At the [...]
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