When a nightmare is actually a reality It was Easter Monday morning in 2010. I had plans to drive from my home in Upper Hutt to my friend Patricia’s farm on the outskirts of Carterton in the Wairarapa. As well as being my boss and an astute businesswoman, Patricia was…

What we leave behind are the memories we leave with others A few years ago a friend asked me if he should write a book about his life. I thought carefully before I replied. …

The definition of ‘insanity’ is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein Smallpox A pox on both your houses! Shakespeare W., Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene1. There were two types of pox in existence in the time of the Bard; Syphilis, a…

All actions have consequences… I liked Lynette. She was attractive in a blonde, Sharon O’Neil Asian Paradise, shark-tooth necklace way but more striking was that she was the first girlfriend I’d ever had who kept everything to herself, even secrets. She had a cool boyfriend, Graham, who, to my 20-year…

We should do what we have to do to be happy — I was sitting with my work-buddy and friend, let’s call him Jordan, in the late afternoon sun on the steps of Atlanta, on the Terrace in Wellington. It was a Friday late in summer, one of those rarest of days in Wellington when it is warm because there is no…