A Different Light

  • State your piece – Inquiry into abuse in care

    A Different Light – 22 September Our very own Cameron Leslie was deservedly front and centre in the Northern Advocate again this week. Front page! The article was about him…

  • Different to my Dad

    My parents never believed in Fathers’ or Mothers’ Day. They both dismissed the practice of sons and daughters paying homage to their parents on a prescribed day of the year…

  • Grey Matter

    A Different Light – 10 August – Grey Matter Don’t you hate when things won’t work for no apparent reason or when a straight forward plan fails miserably? Like a…

  • WORLD TO RITES

    A Different Light – 27 July 2019 Funerals and Powhiri. I instinctually tend to shy away from such formal and public events. Both occasions generally require me walking in front…

  • Free Bird

    A Different Light – 13 July 2019 – Free Bird When I was eighteen I could not wait to leave home. I was off to Auckland University with my friend…

  • Your Best Shot

    A Different Light – 15 June I went for my flu jab yesterday. I had been procrastinating. The feeble logic that flu vaccines give you the flu was vaguely in…

  • Mind the Gap Trap

    A Different Light- 1 June 2019 “Mind the gap.  Mind the gap.” This repeated announcement in the London underground tube stations is to warn the vague, the unsteady and the…

  • Being there

    A Different Light – 18 May 2019 There is much anticipation around Finance Minister Robertson’s first budget. There are stakeholders lined up putting pressure on the government to get their…

  • So Far So Close

    A different Light – 4 May 2019 She was only here for five nights. The last time I saw her was in January on the Gold Coast. I’m one of…

  • The Keyboard to education

    link:  A Different Light – 20 April 2019   My typing is slow. Glacial, in fact. I use one finger and occasionally a thumb. Luckily, I have a PA who does…

  • Sleep is hard to find on these balmy, balmy nights

    A different Light – 6 April 2019 The past month is likely to be one of the warmest March months on record in New Zealand according to Niwa. When March came…

  • Pray, Love, Forgive

    The sheer enormity and horror of the massacre last Friday kept growing by the hour. It was hard to get your head around. It still is. Fifty people (at the…

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