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2025
2025 was bookended with visits from and to close friends, with a long-anticipated family visit in the middle from Norway and Canada, coinciding with my 30th. In between, I spent most of my time moving between living in, and writing about, disability community. I am not on the edge of poverty, but people I care…
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2024
We lost a lot of people this year From the Māori King to Lifelong champions of people and planet Like Efeso collins and Rod oram Green Party stalwarts Keith Locke and Caroline Glass Disabled leaders and disability advocates Sir Robert Martin, Matua Maaka Tibble, Pauline Boyles, Vaughan Dodd My great aunt Anne Fitzsimons And friends…
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2023
2023 was adjusting… to Aotearoa home to living on the other side of the world to my whole family to starting doctoral studies to not living in near-total isolation in my bedroom to considerably extending my previously long-Covid-restricted diet😋 to finding community among neighbours to realising that retrieving remnants of collective care from 2020 is…
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Moving back to Aotearoa New Zealand
I’m flying back to Aotearoa tomorrow after moving to Sweden to study followed by a 2.5-year unplanned detour to Norway. I want to leave some reflections here about this particular transition. But I’m struggling to find the words. How can I express the ways that the pandemic’s presence and being dislocated from home and having…
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2021
On a chronic illness level, 2021 was tricky for me. Long Covid has a real penchant for continuing to chuck new constellations of symptoms at many of its people, for which I am no exception, on schedules which despite my best efforts get only a little easier to predict over time. Finding a meaningful vocabulary…
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A Frame on Life 