Poetry reading: Making friends when you’re old (or young) is hard
It’s not easy making new friends but when old friends move or die or cut contact with you. Two poems with some ideas that might help at those times.
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(Not about elections) End-of-year Wellington: too much fun!
We’re having too much fun with end-of-year-shows in Wellington this year. New Zealand songs, dances, comedy and poems: grab them now!
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Feline influencer gives 2014 MacBook Pro a 5-star review
Seems Ursula (the celebrity social media influencer) and I can never agree when evaluating products. She loves my 2014 MacBook Pro because it is warm, a nice cosy sleeping pad perched in a high place with an extensive view of the neighbourhood and distant suburbs. By contrast, I would give the MacBook Pro only 3.5 […]
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New Zealand Plant Art by Kate McAlpine—nature rearranged
A scientist makes gorgeous plant art from New Zealand leaves, flowers, weeds, seeds and insects. Kate McAlpine paints with flora and fauna.
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Jacinda Ardern’s politics of love—a song
In our smallness is our greatness, in our suchness is our muchness: that’s the politics of love. So saith Jacinda: we won’t be torn asunder
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