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Anniversary Words - 196 days ago
Sas marks the first anniversary of her blog this weekend. My hunch is that the first year of any blog is probably quite important in terms of establishing the tone and topics and readership, although of course these things can change over time.One of... Topics: anniversaries, blogging, blogs, commentatrix, in Aotearoa, meta-diarist, O internet
Hogwarts Revisited - 197 days ago
A former student of mine contacted me some time ago to say her parents would be coming out from Kenya for her summer graduation, and inviting me to meet them. So it was that on Friday I hied myself to the last of Concrete University’s December... Topics: commentatrix, graduation, in Aotearoa, teaching & learning
Plus, I got depression - 197 days ago
Señor Mojito [yesterday]: You don’t have some terrible childhood trauma that you haven’t told me about?H-Bird: No; no. That’s not how it works unfortunately.Señor Mojito [today, pointing at my grandmother's glory box]: What... Topics: Achewood, at home, Christmas, commentatrix, high-functioning depressive, home life, Roast Beef, we are family
H-Bird’s World of Things 2 - 199 days ago
Plighted TrothThis is my engagement ring, on my finger. It was designed and made by Deanna Gracie, a jewellery designer and exhibitor whose blog you can read here. Wearing it is giving me a lot of pleasure; you may even find me striking those kind of. Topics: commentatrix, engagement ring, feminism, in Aotearoa, jewellery, we are family
A recurring season - 203 days ago
As regular readers will know, December and June are typically the times when I, not to put too fine a point on it, go a bit mental. This explains in large part my quietness here. It’s harder to detect the start of a downward journey in an... Topics: at home, Chris Christmas Rodriguez, Christmas, depression, O internet
