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…
Kia ora friends, The two major political parties in NZ have some kind of agreement going on that we need legislation to restrict Big Tech’s access to our children. I…
Alrighty friends, On Saturday I did the Parenting hour on Newstalk ZB, and we wound up veering off my area of expertise and stumbled into the realm of having conversations…
Kia ora friends, Little Girl is still unwell – it’s day nine (?)… meanwhile, f you could see the number of open tabs that are squashed along the top of…
Kia ora fam, I really would like to be allowed to exist for love. Like Aurora. My training and work and research and life all justify my long held pro-mama,…
Kia ora friends Here we go, 2024. So I’ve employed my dad’s excellent life advice to wait till you’ve had two sleeps after a difficult situation, in order to decide…
Kia ora friends When I lived in the USA, they used to talk about the weather in terms of June gloom, and I thought “not in North Canterbury, where the…
kia ora friends, flipping ol’ August – I guess I utterly failed to post in the month of July. Sheesh. Not that I was sitting around idly, though. Friends: I…
Dear Screen Free Week 2022, Hey, old friend! It’s been a while. We have an intimate history, you and I, and I just want to acknowledge your validity – as…