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My third grandmother
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, unconditional love and...
Me and Lois
For the last six months I’ve been having the delightful experience of discovering a new favourite author. Lois McMaster Bujold isn’t a household name like Diana Gabaldon, or JK Rowling, or Charlaine Harris, or even Ursula K Le Guin. But I think she should be. Bujold...
The economics of local food in New Zealand
This is a post about local food. I love eating food grown in my region, the Waikato in New Zealand's heartland. I don’t think local food is just an idealistic middle class fad, as some cynical commentators claim. But the local food economy is an interesting and...