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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
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Not another climate change story tell me a love story instead
Tell me honestly, will you click on this or scroll right past?
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The only writing prompt you might ever need
I met a couple of kids on the banks of the Wairoa and we got talking.
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Decolonising famous writerly advice with Anahera Gildea
Neil Gaiman says you can do whatever you like as long as you do it with enough assurance. Let's unpack that.
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"Bro, we're all good. Are you all good?"
Climate Change, via a detour of colonial history and Te Tiriti o Waitangi
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There's still time to get it right
If you could break bread with someone you lost, what would you say?
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Feeling the fear and publishing anyway
A mihi + a pledge
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Journals keep us honest. Is that why we always want to burn them?
The best writing skill no-one told me about
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One for the hustlers
What are we to make of the media stampede towards newsletters?
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Who's raising who?
On parenting through the generations.
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Thank you for coming to my TEDx talk
(No seriously)
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Poppin' Off Pānui #4 - 117 days to go
In which craft and discipline surrender to mystery, faith and the workings of wairua