I don’t write here as much as I used to. This is partly because I have lots of other writing projects. Partly because I have been fini...

Faced with a list of tiresome chores and no writing mojo to be found anywhere, I decided to indulge in a little private time this morning....

I have a bathroom book. It’s usually a non-fiction book, occasionally what you might call a coffee-table book, but usually a parenting...

As you may know, I recently got a gig writing hilarious posts for the Aussie shopping site Mamadoo (well I think they're hilarious, esp...

A couple of years ago, stuck in the middle of school holidays with my then-five year old Bombshell, we decided that we would write a book t...

The last thing I hear as the cab pulls away are your cries. The excitement I had been feeling all week sinks like a stone in my stomach. T...

'I saw your article, Shannon.' Normally these four words would make me swell with pride, but lately they have been making me wince...

Today marks the first anniversary of ' The Brutal Truth About the Third Child '. In a small way, writing that post changed my lif...

Do you think that's a good name for a novel? If I ever get around to writing my autobiography, I think that is what I will call it. Be...

Like many of us, I have a novel inside me. In the past it was just an idle dream, so blurry it was like my baby had been smearing her grubby...

A friend I haven't seen in a while asked me today how my writing was going. And it made me stop and think. On the one hand, I blog r...

Shift your eyes slightly to the right.  No, that's my ridiculously outdated photo that makes me look like a bug-eyed monster.  Below tha...

Today I just don't feel like writing. Correction - I want to write, but the words aren't coming.  I would probably struggle to do ...

It is the end of 2011. And while that won't make much difference to aspects of everyday life such as whether to give the kids weetbix ...

I believe life is a journey, and within that, each of the roles we adopt take us on a path.  Some of those paths are direct, others - like m...

A find myself with a small window of opportunity.  A port-hole really. Twice a week the Blonde Bombshell and Miss Curly Mop attend daycare...

For a few months now I have been posting review articles to Weekend Notes , a website that operates in a number of Australian states (and Ne...

Some of you may think that blogging is simply a means for me to have a bit of a rant about a topic of my choosing. FREE MONEY. You are abs...

I tried, I really did.  I tried to be all clever and blog-professional and move from this blogspot address to my very own www.shannonmeyer...

I'm thrilled to announce I have my first paid writing job. I spent two hours the other day writing an article, taking some original ph...