A Different Light

  • The Keyboard to education

    link:  A Different Light – 20 April 2019   My typing is slow. Glacial, in fact. I use one finger and occasionally a thumb. Luckily, I have a PA who does…

  • Sleep is hard to find on these balmy, balmy nights

    A different Light – 6 April 2019 The past month is likely to be one of the warmest March months on record in New Zealand according to Niwa. When March came…

  • Pray, Love, Forgive

    The sheer enormity and horror of the massacre last Friday kept growing by the hour. It was hard to get your head around. It still is. Fifty people (at the…

  • Love is a four-legged word

    A Different Light – 9 March 2019 Heck! That’s pretty impressive, I think as I eye our two dogs. They are tiny. They are hairy. They bark a lot. Are…

  • 9 February 2019

    A Different Light – A Spoon Full of Sugar I got feedback on social media on my last column to the effect “actually please can you start writing about Disabilities…

  • Hard to be bad when you’re known

    A different Light –  26 January 2019 A Different Light – 26 January 2019 As I was careering down Bank Street the other day on my mobility scooter, wearing a…

  • 22 December 2018

    “Virtual medal” A different Light 22 December 2018 I always seem to get off lightly when it comes to Christmas shopping, thank god. My wife does most of the heavy lifting,…

  • Roll Playing

    A different Light – 15 September 2018 ‘A lot of work to be done on wheelchair accessibility – Carmel Sepuloni’, hardly a bowel shattering revelation, but believe it or not,…

  • 1 September 2018

    Making it Work Sitting in the Invercargill airport, I kept on wondering why people were giving me stranger looks than normal. Oh then I remembered it might be the bloody…

  • 18 August 2018

    SPEECH MARKS        A different Light – 18 August You have got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, and know when to bugger off…

  • 4 August 2018

    “Get a life – you’re not on the Titanic” was one of the harsher comments from a Facebook friend in response to my last column on my neck. “Thanks Kim!”…

  • 21 July 2018

    A different Light final- 21 July 2018 I’m in training. I have an event looming on the horizon. I need to be in tip top shape, a lean mean vice-free…

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