The Year Comes to a Close

by | Dec 31, 2008 | Life Journal

It is the last day of 2008, and as is my wont, I am reflecting on the year that has been. So, while others are out reveling in the incipient celebrations of the night, I sit, in my brother’s lovely and otherwise vacant Wellington house, thinking and writing....

Solipsistic Pleasures

by | Sep 19, 2008 | Life Journal

The endless review of my life reached a point of inflection recently when I found myself contemplating a shift from this quiet land to the city of Wellington. After the move to Wanaka in 2004, and as my journal will demonstrate should you wish to read back into its...

I’m Back

by | Jun 7, 2008 | Life Journal

I disabled this site a couple of weeks ago to give myself some time to think about it all. I was wondering about the value to me of all this rumination and actually even wondering if I was possibly repelling people who otherwise might take the time with me by exposing...

Me. The Lake. Alone. With Kids.

by | Apr 13, 2008 | Life Journal

For all my self-questioning in my personal life, which has occupied far too many pages on this site for too long, there are also some acute daily joys that I experience over and over. There is not a day when I do not arrive at school with enthusiasm for the day ahead,...

Minority of One

by | Feb 28, 2008 | Life Journal

Today one of my colleagues was telling me about these two very handsome guys she’d seen while she’d been doing a walk over Mt Iron. It made me feel so alone. I’m such a funny wee man. I then, after school, and in the grey light of an oncoming storm,...

My Brother Did a Painting For Me

by | Feb 28, 2008 | Life Journal

Damien, who’s my dad’s wife’s son, and who I’ve known since I was about 8, suddenly turned into a fine young man – and then this year he appears to be turning thirty, which is a fact that doesn’t quite register, given what it means about how far through this...