by Alice Bulmer | Jan 29, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons
My mother, Susan Bulmer, has a bat named after her. Bulmer’s Fruit Bat, Aproteles bulmerae. It’s a giant fruit bat from the remote highlands of New Guinea. And it used to be extinct, but probably isn’t. As a young woman, before she was tied down with children,...
by Alice Bulmer | Jan 22, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Food, Tools of resilience
This is about my philosophy of eating. I believe food should be beautiful, delicious, interesting, creative, fun and social. Too many of us are giving away our power by not paying enough attention to what we eat and how we’re eating it. Food isn’t just fuel for our...
by Alice Bulmer | Jan 21, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Family skeletons, Music, Tools of resilience
How can music improve the lives of people with dementia? Every couple of weeks I drive to Auckland to make music with my mother, Sue. It’s fun and joyful for both of us. My mother has dementia. It has been gradually progressing over the last five years – maybe longer...
by Alice Bulmer | Nov 15, 2015 | Books, Ecology
Brilliant Green is a provocative and ground-breaking book that’s been stretching my mind ever since I opened the covers. Italian biologist Stefano Marcuso, director of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology (LINV), and science writer Alessandra Viola make...
by Alice Bulmer | Oct 30, 2015 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, Music, Storytelling, Tools of resilience
Saturday afternoon is my favourite time of the week. My ukulele group meets at 4pm. We drink a glass of wine, play ukulele and have fun. For two hours, nothing else matters. Our nine members have a wide range of musical experience – some have been playing for six...
