Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
Happy New Year! I followed the same tradition last night that I have maintained for many years now, and did nothing. Being only a ‘mildly social’ person, I’m happy in my mildly curmudgeonly ways, which I don and discard in no particular order, and at will, according to the occasion. What can I say? I’m …
The cat put his foot in my breakfast this morning. I should have been disgusted, because who knows where that foot has been. Upon weighing it up, however, I decided that I’d rather polish off my breakfast than be disgusted by the cat putting his foot in it. Now that I’m more than sixty and …
We’re all connected. No matter how independent we may think we are, we have connections that impact us on our journey in this world which we can be both barely, and very, aware of. Everything we do touches someone or something else. Recently, via Speak Up For Women NZ, I sponsored a young woman …
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It was supposed to be foolproof - or as close to it as possible. But it didn’t take into account my superpower. Not many people know this, but I have the ability to kill plants at fifty paces by doing nothing more than having them in my vicinity. Actually, I tell a lie – most …
If the first thing you thought upon reading the title of this blog piece was "what the heck is magnet fishing?”, you’re not alone. If you already know what it is, you’re more worldly than me. Frankly, that might not be terribly difficult - but I won’t burst anyone’s bubble. I’ll let you have that …
I’ve now become a paid up member of the Free Speech Union of New Zealand¹. I expect that respecting everyone’s rights to free speech will be quite a challenge for me, as I definitely think some people should just shut up. Myself excluded, of course 🙂 However, having been on the receiving end of cancel …
I’ve grudgingly begun downloading ebooks from the library to read on my laptop. The libraries have been closed for the last (almost) three weeks, and it’s either ebooks or spending too much time on Facebook fighting with strangers over differing points of view that no one will change. Even though I much prefer to be …
I’ve discovered another theory of relativity to add to Einstein’s ones. Or maybe it’s a matter of physics? Whatever. My discovery, based on first-hand experience, is that a piece of driftwood lying on the beach looks a lot smaller lying there, than it feels when it’s picked up and in your hand. Today started off …
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I have a fascination with Little River/Awa-iti¹ on Banks Peninsula. It may stem back to when my older sister worked on a farm near there in her older teen years, and I used to stay with her during school holidays. I loved it. Every so often, but not often, we’d drive into Little River for …
Our visit to Wellington wasn’t supposed to be either wild or for the weekend, but the weather wizards threw a wobbly, so that’s what we got. A couple of weeks ago, sis and I tripped off to Wellington for secret women’s business, and got a lot more than we bargained for. Cards on the table, …
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