Archive for the Coming ‘home’ category
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
I travel a lot. I once calculated that between 2001, when I moved back to New Zealand from Gaza, and 2008, when I moved back to New Zealand again – this time from Afghanistan – the longest consecutive time I slept in the same bed was 11 nights. In those seven years I lived and worked [...]
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Posted in Coming 'home', Connecting | 6 Comments »
Friday, July 20th, 2012
One of the biggest treats I’ve given myself this summer has been the time to read. Long before I ever thought of myself as a writer, I was a reader. Books were my favorite place to hang out as a child. And they still are today. I can’t think of many things I love doing [...]
Posted in Coming 'home', Development, Story-telling | 7 Comments »
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
Back in January, someone asked me: Do you have any plans to go back into the field? And my honest answer was: Yes, actually I do. Or more accurately, I have a won’t-go-away, ache-in-my-belly desire for it. What I need is a plan. Well. Soon after writing that post I started to see the dots that connected [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Coming 'home' | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
I don't know about you, but when I go home to spend the holidays with my extended family there are always plenty of opportunities to chose my story. I have two sisters and three cousins with whom we grew up so closely that our relationships are more like siblings. Out of the six of us [...]
Posted in Being the change, Coming 'home' | 9 Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Crossing the finish line – 29 hours and 28 minutes after we started The Oxfam Trailwalker event has been a big part of my life in the past few months. It is a fundraising walk in which four team members walk together for 100km, not a relay and not a stop-and-sleep type event. We walked [...]
Posted in Coming 'home', Letting go, Yoga | 8 Comments »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Foxton Fizz bottles at Deluxe Cafe I've done plenty of crying in the past few days. But there have been moments of joy and goodness too. Here are five things that have made me smile. 1. Taking blogger Katie and her friend Sandra on a tour of my favorite cafes of Wellington on Tuesday. We [...]
Posted in Coming 'home', Good things | 11 Comments »
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra in action, Deluxe Cafe, Wellington. February 2008. Life in Wellington is so different to life in Ghor that it seems ludicrous to continue writing about the former in a space originally created for my stories from the latter. But I know that some of you are interested (thank you) and [...]
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