Here is the map and today is March 3rd, so you'll realise that quite some time and kilometres have elapsed since we began our  Odyssey  2017 on January 29th when we left Wellington on the Kaitaki, with our friend Karen, here on holiday from Denmark. It wasn't until I received an email from my ...
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This is the view of the garden from the French doors of my room at NZ Pacific Studio taken at the start of my time as the Masterton Creative Communities Fellow. The other view is the small verandah outside my room.  What a luxury to have three whole weeks in which to do nothing very much except ...
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It's Spring here at Te Ao O Nga Pukeko, usually a season of hope.  New lambs gambol around their mothers, there are flowers on the olive trees, the young bulls are filling out.  Daffodils have bloomed,   roses smell delicious and the imperial purple irises, I love, have buds about to burst, fruit is ...
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Looking for space to write, perhaps you want ...
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And it was such a day. On September 27th, around the Spring Equinox, my novel, But For The Grace, was launched at Aratoi in Masterton by Fraser Books. Shirley Corlett, an award-winning novelist and the convenor of our Quill writing group did me the honour of launching it with a very profound and ...
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I am thrilled to have received pre-orders for my novel due to be published by Fraser Books, a small indie publisher, on September 27th, and I'm hoping more of you will support my efforts to cover some of the printing costs I need. A thousand thank yous to those of you who have pre-ordered and I'll ...
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Zusya was a devout Hassidic Rabbi known for his devotion to studying the Torah and his uncommon goodness, so his congregation was amazed one morning when he appeared before them looking frightened and disheveled. "Zusya, Zusya, whatever is the matter?"  someone asked and the answer surprised.  "Oh, ...
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I think it might be too late to say Happy New Year. Isn’t it unlucky or something? I cannot believe that it is March already… mind you I think I begin every Journal entry saying, I cannot believe… Perhaps my New Year’s resolution should have been to find a new way to begin my journal without feeling ...
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Tuesday night this week was Full Moon and we had a festival under the Cherry Trees in our Library Park.  The moon accepted the invitation ad so did the poets and storytellers, the musician and the people who came to join us but the Cherry blossoms have yet to appear. Still, a good sized crowd came ...
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