When you’re in your little room
Flatmates, rickety stairs and toiling in tiny spaces – a compendium of rooms and creative endeavours
Narrative nonfiction
Ticket to Frazzleville
Neutrinos, a haunting road trip and getting frazzled – a foray into the science (my version) of getting overwhelmed
Your brother is not a towel
Spiders, scissors and sibling rivalry – learning how to get along (safely, if possible) with your family
Soul of Asolo
Pride, fancy boots set to self-destruct, tramping with kids, and a DOC ranger who prioritises mangoes
Museum misfit
Animal impressions, chess addiction and meaningful work – trying to be an upstanding museum worker, with mixed results
Star of the sky
A great deal of academic energy has gone into answering the question: What makes something funny? The quest for a unifying theory of laughter. What the theories boil down to is this: “I did not expect that. But I enjoyed that I didn’t.”
One of the delights of parenthood
CSI Whanganui
Riding the zeitgeist and cleaning toilets – epiphanies while working the nightshift