http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/karin-van-heerwaarden/ Karin van Heerwaarden is a part-time producer at News Digital Media, part-time freelance writer and part-time stay-at-home mum. She was born and raised on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula where she attended a very public high school. Having completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics and English literature she promptly forgot everything she’d learnt and soon after packed all her worldly possessions into her Kingswood and drove to Sydney where she’s been ever since. In her spare time she teaches her son useful phrases like ‘easy peasy lemon squeezy’, wonders if she will ever find a decent dim sim in NSW, follows recipes to the letter, still bites her finger nails after all these years, maintains a strong opposition to ironing, pretends to read the weekend paper and blogs about books. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/real-women-dont-wear-white-silk-jumpsuits/ That’s it. I am done with fashion magazines. Officially. I am never buying one, or reading one … or even nonchalantly flicking through the pages of one in my dentist’s office again. Ever. Again. Since my teens I have bought women’s fashion magazines off and on. The frequency dropped off as I got older but I would still occasionally buy one on impulse, sucked in by the glossy pages, the surreal photo of that actress I like on the cover and the promise of a few hours of mindless engagement with fashion, celebrity and perhaps even a decent article or two.  However, every time, from the first page to the back cover, I would travel a well-worn path through the six stages of fashion magazine consumption: feedback@thepunch.com.au (Karin Van Heerwaarden) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/real-women-dont-wear-white-silk-jumpsuits/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/real-women-dont-wear-white-silk-jumpsuits/#item6906 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:35:26 +0000 Karin Van Heerwaarden | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/celebrity-interviews/ In an interview on Sixty Minutes on Sunday Tara Brown asked Michael Buble why he became a singer. He responded with ‘You want the truth or do you want a good story?’  Brown wanted the truth (being a journalist what else could she say?) and he gave it to her: ‘I wanted to get laid.’ feedback@thepunch.com.au (Karin Van Heerwaarden) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/celebrity-interviews/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/celebrity-interviews/#item1479 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:45:23 +0000 Karin Van Heerwaarden | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/I-cant-watch-because-the-networks-keep-axing-shows/ Once upon a time there was a woman who watched a new show on Channel 10 called Life on Mars. She enjoyed this show and looked forward to watching more episodes. But one day, without any warning, Channel 10 decided to cancel this new show. The woman cursed Channel 10 and its near-sighted programming executives and vowed never to watch a new show again. This sad tale can be retold, again and again, simply insert the name of any number of shows - Eli Stone, Dirty Sexy Money, Torchwood, 90210 - the list goes on. Channel 7 is heavily promoting two shows at the moment, FlashForward and Mercy and they look like shows I would enjoy. But I won’t be watching either of them because history tells me that their chances of lasting a season are about as good as Kyle Sandilands chances of being nominated for Australian of the Year. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Karin Van Heerwaarden) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/I-cant-watch-because-the-networks-keep-axing-shows/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/I-cant-watch-because-the-networks-keep-axing-shows/#item1352 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:55:27 +0000 Karin Van Heerwaarden | Author bios | The Punch