Category: education

hols gonna hol

hols gonna hol

kia ora friends, week two of the spring school holidays, here. Although my kids are older and well’n’truly capable of self-management, they still like hanging out with me. I ask…
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a great, big library day

a great, big library day

Kia ora friends, I’ll try to be efficient, today. Body and brain and eyes could use a break from sitting and screens. Biggie, yesterday, getting stuck in to the report…
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blooming and sneezing

blooming and sneezing

mōrena e te whānau it’s like a blossom festival around here. I love the visuals, but jeepers there is some sneezing going on. Not gonna grizzle, though, I’ll just continue…
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signs of strain

signs of strain

Kia ora friends, The photo accompanying this post was a slightly performative selfie, taken on a Monday morning a few weeks ago, when I was about to deliver a zoom…
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affected parties

affected parties

There’s a lot of hubbub in the news about the sexism of a kiwi politician and the idea of maternity leave and laziness (ha!) when a female MP took her allocated…
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working from home

working from home

Kia ora friends, Big day – release day for episode five of Nadia Maxwell’s excellent six-part series “under the influence”. My work and I are in there, I am so…
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age old dilemma

age old dilemma

Here it is: I want to be positive. I want to talk about the things that WORK for families, and that are life-enhancing. I don’t want to spend my days…
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