I wrote this piece about Eureka and it was printed in the Ballarat Courier. There it was: an Opinion piece! A little tweet from Ballarat flagged my publication, fluttering past me that morning. A tweet on a stick. Ballarat Courier, p.17. 5th December 2014 My stitching together of a tale across time. A flag, a symbol; staking a claim, owning a story. I have no hard copy of this paper, but I'm glad it's now also online . So, here are the flowers I bought myself to celebrate. To see another version of my piece, see also Eureka's Children newsletter from April 2015 Postscipt: On that note of flagging one's own achievements, I loved Sarah Burnside's piece in Overland, about the lexicon of pitching and writing. She writes of how we sell ourselves and our stories, exploring the 'So, I wrote this thing' line of self promotion. See above!