Neil Gaiman has always been a big part of my love story. My husband, Lars, loves Gaiman’s work so, to fatally snare Lars in my trap soon after we’d met, I lined up at a Gaiman book event for three hours to get a book signed for him. At the time, I was in my early thirties […]

Since I last blogged, the world has kind of imploded. Trump was elected. That three-word sentence punches my gut with every syllable. David Seymour has carried the Treaty Principles Bill to its first hearing. My words struggle in the shallow waters of my patience for this man and his twisted vision of what Aotearoa should […]

Tell a writer to ‘write anything’ and they will stall. Anything is pretty big. When deciding what to talk about in this blog post, I asked myself what I would want to read. I teleported back to when I would scour the pages of blogs of Te Papa Tupu writers and wondered what I most […]