The Hand Mirror

The following is an edited version of a short talk I gave on disability and queer issues to a queer, mostly studenty, audience. It is limite...

Thanks to hazel for allowing to crosspost this from The Money Pit where she blogs about home renovation and her life. Field and I are in...

so the government's books are going to show a blowout. what a surprise. not. the latest cuts in tax & the previous ones, particula...

Thanks very much to reader Ali for passing this on - I know there has been a bit of interest in doing something in the comments, so hopefull...

From the Herald today: Asian migrant men hit by recession are moving overseas to look for work - but are leaving their wives and children in...

There is an interesting piece over at TomDispatch about the economic crisis and women in New York city. In particular, the piece highlight...

So fixated has the media become on Melissa Lee's oopsies - waiting like vultures for her next fuck up, and ignoring the competent things...

Wandering through the train station, I saw a billboard advertising Kiwibank's new debit card. It read: "Mine won't let me spen...

as a chartered accountant, i'm required to complete at least 20 hours of structured professional development every year. which means th...

In the interest of helping my dear mother with a query she has, and given that she's been out of the dating game for nigh on forty years...

From this morning's NZ Herald : But relationship problems often worsened when people suffered major financial blows such as redundancy. ...

When my partner and I were first together we didn't have much money. Imaginative gifts were the order of the day at Xmas and birthdays,...

A couple of workmates and I - all three of us mums - were lamenting the cost of living at morning tea time. The issue of school camps came ...

i've been meaning to write over the past couple of weeks about the effects of widowhood, particularly after a sudden death that happened...