by Alice | Mar 30, 2022 | Becoming Alice, Family skeletons, Personal power, Storytelling
Names hold power. Our personal names are vectors, co-ordinates by which we locate ourselves in time and space, relationships, culture and more. I’m still bearing the names I was given at birth: Alice Mary Bulmer. It’s not a very harmonious collection of names. For...
by Alice | Feb 14, 2022 | Becoming Alice, Favourite, Life coaching, Metaskills, Storytelling
“I want a job that suits me and doesn’t drive me crazy. And includes music, or allows me time to make music.” This is the story of my long and winding road to life coaching. I hope it inspires you to seek life coaching much earlier than I did. Looking for my ideal...
by Alice | Jan 22, 2022 | Life coaching, Music
How to write a song: “I’d like to write songs, but I don’t know how to start. How do I choose a good songwriting course?” I have a family full of songwriters. My husband, Matthew, has been writing songs constantly since he was 18 years old. My mother, Sue, wrote...
by Alice | Sep 12, 2021 | Becoming Alice, Family skeletons, Favourite, Storytelling
This is my story about the strange and eventful year that was 1966. It took me all the way from a bungalow on the volcanic lava slopes of Auckland/Tamaki Makarau, to a haunted Elizabethan cottage in East Anglia and back again. In 1966 I learned that the world...
by Alice | Jun 17, 2021 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, Favourite, Metaskills
Deep in the forest, high up in the mountains of New Guinea, a huge bird strides confidently through the undergrowth. Foraging here and there for seeds and fruit and insects, the cassowary is the queen of the forest, the biggest creature in this ecosystem. She doesn’t...
