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Starlings-eye View
Do we really occupy different worlds? Or just different imaginations?
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The weight of your own conscience
At what age is it no longer acceptable to look away? (Lois rides again)
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Abandoning Twitter, Facebook's out to pasture, reel tired of IG & TikTok, where shall we connect in real time online?
Substack's answer is a new thing called "chats", everyone's trying it out so I might, too
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The narrative arc of your own life
Making sense of the crazy shit we do
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Poppin' Off Pānui #6: with some unmissable weekend reading/listening
And a fair bit of love for the art of Zines
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Babe, that ain't hard
From the separation diaries: for my solo Māmā doing it tough out there
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Poppin' Off Pānui #5: And a plea to all the tired but talented New Zealand writers on the fence about newsletters
In which I enthusiastically share with you what I'm writing, reading, listening to, thinking, etc.
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Hands fluent in silence
A love song to all the words that have ever been crushed inside the chests of hardworking men
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It's better to write the feelings than to try and outrun them
From the separation diaries
Audio & interviews
What is the point of art/story?
In (metaphorical) conversation with Jack Trolove and Anahera Gildea
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Parenting Through Separation
I look around the room and try to pick the leavers from the leavees but it’s impossible, everyone looks the same. Left/bereft - who can tell the difference?
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The bend in the river where the driftwood collects: A Taitā love story
Irony makes for the best and worst stories