On Obedience: “Experimenter—the Stanley Milgrim Story”.
What about you? Would you obey?
The Old CustomHouse: a photographer’s delight, a community resource, and a Tardis
“We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.” Niall Williams
Up close and personal with Jack Frost, or lies my mother told me.
My Mum on winter frosts and cold cures.
Lessons for life, from my devices.
I arrive home as scheduled and my iPad takes a detour.
It’s 1976 and Mum and Dad come to the USA, to visit me.
My Dad springs a surprise and I discover the look of pride .
ANZACs – one hundred years and every year.
Remembering the fallen
On trepidation, tripping, and solidarity
Footbridges and other worries
My Dad, Tsunami, The Napier Soundshell, and Me
“You know, I once heard that your life is defined by what you do when presented with the need for a Plan-B.” As said to my blogging buddy, Dan, by his driver. If my father was a ghost this is where he’d hang out. It’s the Napier Soundshell […]
Post Election Blues – a survival guide
New Zealand went to the polls on Saturday. For those of you who may have missed this internationally significant event it breaks my heart to tell you the other side won. Faced with defeat and despair a girl needs a survival strategy. This is it. Declare 24 hours of […]
Leaving Home: adventures of a Kiwi exchange student
I saw my first real hand gun in Chicago. It was 1975 and I was on my way to Minnesota. I was edgy. Back home, I’d seen Starsky and Hutch on the Tele – if there was a gun someone always used it and someone always got hurt. The […]
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