Bron's Blog
Personal ponderings from a woman, a writer, a mother, a human
It’s all about relocation, relocation, relocation: Our journey to finding a home in Perth, Australia
The hype about moving to Australia seems to be at an all-time high in New Zealand right now. But to be fair, Australia has always kind of been thrown around as the ‘Magical Oz’ where everything is better. The wages, the weather, the cost of living, all yellow brick...
Forget perfect, aim for peace
When I met Monica, she had recently launched her social enterprise ‘The Everyday Peace Initiative’. The idea of taking peace from this colossal global idea to something you could bring into your everyday life is an idea I absolutely love. It makes the idea of peace a...
You can do anything as long as….
Recently I was asked to express in 100 words or less what it means to be a woman in Dunedin. I’ll admit, I struggled. For one, I’m a writer, so writing something from the heart that’s short and concise is not my usual experience. Not when I have a blog where I can...
If I Ever Ignore You in Public
We all have our thing, right? Situations that cause us anxiety or trigger panic? Strangely for me, one of those things is seeing someone I know in public. Well, not exactly. If I know you very well, then that’s no problem. It’s if I sort of know you, maybe I’ve met...
Dear Husband
We tried to plan things didn’t we? We talked about whether we’d have kids before we got married and we agreed we’d at least have two (we’d see about a third when we got there). I made it clear that life with me meant kids and I remember you saying “I know, I know...
The Village We Forgot to Build
Support networks are hugely important for everyone and especially, in my opinion, for parents raising small children. We are the ones living chaotic lives on broken sleep and chronic sleep deprivation is a major contributor to post-natal depression. There seems to be...
