by Alice Bulmer | Dec 30, 2018 | Becoming Alice, Music
This is the story of how I became a fiddler. I’ve been fiddling for more than three decades. I’ve played fiddle across a wide range of genres. I’ve played in covers bands, bluegrass bands, folk groups and alternative rock bands, and bands that play Celtic music and...
by Alice Bulmer | Nov 2, 2018 | Becoming Alice, Life and death, Storytelling
I consider myself lucky to have had three grandmothers. At the age of 24 I was gifted a new grandmother, Dr Mary O’Meara Pepper. I received things from my bonus grandmother that I’m only now making sense of, more than three decades later. Like,...
by Alice Bulmer | Mar 26, 2018 | Becoming Alice, Books, Storytelling
Like a zillion other people, I love Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. Her novels are packed with romance, feisty heroines, brave heroes, swashbuckling adventure, hot sex, and characters you’re happy to spend 700-odd pages with. Plus a bit of time-travelling to...
by Alice Bulmer | Mar 24, 2017 | Becoming Alice, Metaskills, Tools of resilience
Last year my life was transformed by a bullet journal. My friend Meliors Simms is usually far more up with what’s current than I am. About this time last year she emailed me and said, “I think you should know about this. Come over and I’ll show you.” And I entered the...
by Alice Bulmer | Dec 9, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, Life and death
This is a post about my father, Ralph Bulmer, a man literally larger than life. Ralph died more than a quarter of a century ago, at the age of 60. My half-brother Richard, who was only four, has no memories of our father. So, Rich, this is for you. And for the...
by Alice Bulmer | Oct 23, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, Life and death, New Zealand culture
Susan Evelyn Bulmer (nee Hirsh); February 17, 1933 – October 6, 2016; Archaeologist I’ve written about my mother, Sue, elsewhere on this website: Songs to Remember and The Family Bat. Last week my beautiful, brave, creative, energetic, passionate, wonderful, crazy,...
