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06 February 2026
Epilogue: We All Survived
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Hello, dear reader. Here I am popping back up to write one final blog post, more than three years after my last entry. I kept thinking tha...
31 December 2022
Youth Mental Health Crisis - A Parent's Survival Guide
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It has long been known that New Zealand has the worst youth suicide rate of all 41 OECD nations - here in Godzone our young people are strug...
19 November 2022
53 and Grateful...
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I am fifty-three years old today. Yep, it's my birthday and I am content. To my faithful readers, sorry I haven't written on my blog...
07 December 2021
When Christmas is Hard (Facing the Season after Loss)
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Christmas was always my favourite time of the year – until I found myself facing Christmas as a sole parent in 2016. Five years on, I can...
22 October 2021
On Edge
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I am on edge and I need to vent the best way I know how. I need to somehow clarify and articulate what it is that has me pent up like a pipe...
04 September 2021
'The dog ate my homework' and other true stories
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We have been dog owners for five years now, and we cannot imagine life without our doggy boy, Clyde. Back in 2016, while in the middle of a ...
23 August 2021
It turns out - I'm not over...
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Today has been a super-emotional day. Maybe it's partly the Level Four lockdown we find ourselves back in, all of a sudden. Maybe it...
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