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Smiler
Smiling can be hard in the morning, especially in the face of the stress and the unexpected. This morning I got to the airport just as the check-in went to shit. The computers had stopped talking and...
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Not About Sharks
I’m finding it hard to stop writing. I handed in my final folio for a 6 week summer fiction paper at Victoria University on Friday and the momentum and pressure has left me in daze. It is Monday, and...
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I Want To Read Books
I love books. I love talking about them. I love being surrounded by them. I get more and more whenever I take the girls to the library. They love them, too. But reading seems hard. I have a pile of...
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The Iron Chair
The other day, the wife asked, ‘are you sure you’re not gay?’ It was a fair question. She was making a comment about how I had chosen to tart up an old chair. I’ve had the iron chair for thirty years....
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Coming Soon!
Imagination is tricky. I live with 3 kids so what-ifs are a constant. Last night we talked about time travel over dinner. We were discussing Matariki and how long it would take to reach the stars. I...
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Coasting by Numbers
6 years since my last trip to the West Coast with the lads. 33 years since I first went to the bach. 0 amount of power or phone reception at the old fisherman’s bach. 4 expressions of interest in...
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The Lockdown by Numbers
49 Number of days at/in Level 4 lockdown. 3 Number of times I commented about adding an extra day, just to crack the half century, before eye-rolls commenced. 1 Number of times I asked whether we are...
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Thursday morning, in New Zealand sitting on a coffee waiting on some words From thee, to me A mea culpa, please hold firm I wait, I wait A man, unlocked, turned up in words
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A Word
Today I learned a new word. It’s on the second page of a novel I started reading on a rainy day. The library wants it back and, although it is by one of my favourite authors, I have only just picked...
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The Yuk factor
Here’s an interesting fact. Whenever you use those words, or the roundly derided fun-fact! you risk giving the ick. *Eyerolls* *Groans* Is that a fact, Einstein? In your opinion. Says who? Burn. Yawn....
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