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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...
15 October 2022
Reconstructing
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Today, I have to write. It’s a beautiful spring day here in Auckland. The house is peaceful, though teenagers and dogs abound. And I want to...
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...
28 October 2021
Another Groundhog Day in Lockdown
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I know I'm better off than many others, enduring this endless Delta lockdown in Auckland. I have a job which I can do from home. I have ...
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...
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