Podcasts

The joys of changing language usage

April 13, 2022

Let me share a couple of language usage innovations I’ve heard. Slips of the tongue? Harbingers of change? Corporate jargon? Or just errors?

When the need for privacy tussles with the urge to publish—writer’s block

May 23, 2019

Privacy issues can paralyse a writer. What to hide, what to reveal? That’s a question every writer must confront or suffer writer’s block.

The question is, why did I spend four years dithering instead of writing a particular book, namely Live Long And Like It.

The way of the blog — a poem

October 8, 2018

Poem. The way of the blog is not your choice: it chooses you.

Garden pine tree in Seoul at the top of a small tower

Not a blogging sabbatical but blogging-lite

September 12, 2018

When is a blogging sabbatical not a sabbatical? When a home is not a home.

Puzzled, pleasured, and pacified by a city stroll

February 3, 2018

Plants in a puzzling perspective? Just shadows on the pavement. Red doors to heaven? Just a Massey University thing. Old ngaio tree near the Carillon? Yes, and can you see six kaka nibbling buds and blundering over branches? Toy on a tummy? Just a Buddy-Rabbit tired after his big Saturday walk. But I am refreshed by […]