by Alice Bulmer | 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 Bulmer | Sep 12, 2021 | Becoming Alice, Family skeletons, 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 Bulmer | Jul 25, 2019 | Becoming Alice, Family skeletons, Storytelling
Most people think Alice in Wonderland is an amusing story for kids. But it’s never been that for me, thanks to the name my parents gave me. For many years there was no love lost between me and that other Alice. But I’ve warmed to her. I’ve been inspired to write about...
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 | Jul 13, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Music, New Zealand culture, Storytelling
Recently I attended a citizenship ceremony welcoming new citizens to New Zealand. The new kiwi I was accompanying wasn’t exactly fresh off the boat. My husband Matthew Bannister arrived in this country in 1979. After 37 years, he was finally getting around to becoming...
