Kia ora e hoa mā, Welcome to 2019. Note to self: there is now zero tolerance for anyone writing 2018 in the date field. It’s truly been and gone. I know, we’re already nearly 70 days into the year, this is a late welcome. But for me, mid-February is when the new year feels real. Until […]
Category Archives: Thoughts
Stuff Worth Sharing – end of 2018
Happy day-after-Boxing-Day! I’m usually pretty lazy with this website and don’t post much other than the letters to my kids which I think are worth sharing. But I’ve committed to being more proactive at telling the stories I think add value. That’s not a new years resolution. It’s a now resolution. Like everybody, in every […]
Spend time, not money
When it comes to loved ones, spending money isn’t the same as spending time.
Most of the time all a mean (or kind) face tells you is what their mum and dad looked like. Don’t judge a book by its parent’s genes.
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“You can’t be what you can’t see… we need to see more brown-skinned faces in books.” Choice korero from Paula Morris & Anita Heiss – Author – same goes 4 authors names ON books. Dam Native showed me that as a Māori, I could rap. Patricia Grace showd me I could write stories. Do the things. #NZWritersForum
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Imagine, dream, create.
And the army has to get the dragon and the dragon has to get the army and whoever climbs up the rainbow and slides down the fastest gets the golden trophy. – Huhana, four. Dear Huhana and Kāhu o te Rangi, Once upon a night, someone you know wrestled control of their life back from an […]
Much love
Shout outs to all my loved ones who are going through some stuff, and have put their hand up and said they need help. Whether it’s counselling, rehab, crying to a mate – reaching out takes strength, it shouldn’t, but that’s the world we live in until we change it. You’re inspiring others who might […]
Stories you can’t write
“There are stories that you can write, and there are stories that you can’t write. And, in the end, you write the ones that you can, and that allows you to bear the ones that you can’t. There’s nothing, I think, particularly upsetting about that — it’s simply a strategy of survival. And it’s also […]
Do it for love
I just spent a chunk of the money from ‘The Man Who Writes the Dreams’ sales having it assessed by Chris from TFS – Total Fiction Services – that’s something you would usually do to revise and rework a manuscript before publishing, not after, but I wanted to know what I could have done better […]
Dear Pera, speak more Māori
Choice korero on Kāpiti tonight about giving yourself permission to speak Māori even if some people in the room don’t understand. Our children seeing and understanding Māori as normal and OK, has as big or bigger positive impact than the inconvenience factor of an audience needing to listen twice, firstly to ngā kūpu Māori (Māori […]