HILLS, SEALS, SNOW AND STUFF October 1st, 2014 – Day Three At the age of eight, I was the perfect child. I never argued with my mother, I never got into any trouble and life seemed trouble free. Until the day when five jam drop biscuits went missing. Yes, exactly five. Biscuits in our house […]
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SMILE FOR US September 30th 2014 – Day Two Fifty (and a little bit) years ago my brother and I lived in Christchurch for a few short years. We moved to Blenheim when I was still very young, but we visited family in Christchurch often. While understandably those young years are hazy, I still have
In my Shadow Nine years ago, my father, brother, youngest daughter and I, made the pilgrimage to New Zealand with two urns of ashes firmly stowed in our backpacks, fulfilling my mother’s wishes of taking her home to New Zealand. In the ten days that we were there, we revisited all the places that hold
