About the thing
Some of you may have seen the thing my friend has started. I wanted to talk a little bit more about this thing. 1. This thing is amazing. This thing makes Continue Reading →
Category Archives: About illness
A beggar and a criminal
When I started writing I was doing it to process what I had been through, what I was going through. Then I was doing it because I thought it was Continue Reading →
A rock and a hard place
After another fruitful meeting with WINZ, I discover I can either commit benefit fraud, or tax evasion. (Hi, GCSB). This is an uncomfortable post, but I feel it’s necessary. I’m Continue Reading →
Rest, rest, rest
I wrote the below a while ago, and thought I would share it today, since I’m really too sick to write anything at the moment. Obviously, since I got sick, Continue Reading →
More pills
So today was pretty massive. I’ve been so sick again recently, and also had really sore eyes, so I made yet another appointment with my doctor, and booked a sight Continue Reading →
Thanks for the thought
Last year, I was attending a meeting with some clients. Halfway through the meeting, an assistant walked in and asked one of the team to step out. When she came Continue Reading →
‘Home ownership is not a moral value’
As a small addendum to my piece on home ownership (Another Kiwi dream down the drain), I’d like to share these Tweets from Keith Bolland. I have nothing to Continue Reading →
Let’s talk about entitlement
“800 prosecutions a year for bene fraud. 50 a year for tax evasion. Even though it costs us 50x as much.” That’s a tweet from Max Rashbrooke, a journalist who Continue Reading →
Sometimes there are bad days
As you would have gathered from Twitter if you follow me – or if you were there! – yesterday was the Nelson Tweetup. It was also a pretty bad day Continue Reading →
Let’s change the world shall we?
Today I received my first negative comment about a post. As much as I had prepared myself for the likelihood this happening, it was still difficult to accept. I think Continue Reading →