Every second month Anna shares her musings, personal insights, and observations of our diverse lives. Life is super busy at the moment and I have the great skill of taking on more and more tasks, jobs and requests for a helping hand. So I took a few moments out of a long working day to…
This month I sat down with Kiran to talk about gender, colonisation and community:
Sometimes, we hear a lot of from people bemoaning the destructive impact of social media upon society, culture and, in particular, youth. We hear about how social media drives us apart, decreases human connection and facilitates online bullying and extremist views. While I wouldn’t say that there isn’t anything negative about social media at all,…
In this months guest blog, Philip Patston shares his views on the right-to-die case of Lecretia Seales, and the issue of voluntary euthanasia. This morning I woke to the news that Lecretia Seales had passed away at 12.35am. As I write I am watching tweets from the NZ Herald that the Judge in her right-to-die case said no. I’m…
One day as a young, hungry University student (well, hungry on this day anyway, as I’d forgotten my lunch), a young man happened to be selling sandwiches outside. I gratefully bought one and we got talking (he and I got talking that is, not me and the sandwich). He asked about my disability, and as I’m always open to sharing about Spina Bifida with the uninitiated, I was quite happy to explain. He was Christian and as I had similar faith, we “clicked”.
