Bibliophilia

The worst thing about working in the cafe kitchen is the heat. With one oven on all day and sometimes two or three stove top elements and a...

Eleanor's photographer friend moved back to the USA and gave her a big pile of mat board and paper. Eleanor didn't want it for hers...

My friend Betty had her Bat Mitzvah yesterday. Usually this takes place around one's 13th birthday, but like me, Betty didn't get t...

My search for the right yoga teacher is sure leading me into some interesting environments. For those who haven't been following the yo...

I'm having a lot of fun at the moment, starting a number of new book projects. It is a delightful stage to be at because everything is ...

Cherries have long been my favourite fruit, possibly my favourite food and maybe even my favourite flavour (but don't tell chocolate!). ...

This is not a common sight: in fact I don't think I've ever seen stooks in real life before. But apparently historically authentic ...

A giant chicken perched beside the highway: we scream with laughter screech to a halt, U-turn and take pictures to show our chickens back ho...

I had hoped to visit Michael O'Brian's book bindery in historic Oamaru while travelling in the South Island. Unfortunately Michael ...

A friend sent this photo of how he has created a kind of alter with a copy of my book, Bittul Hayesh: Meditation on Nothingness. He says it...

Staying at this cute cottage in Goodwood, near Palmerston which is up the coast from Dunedin was an adventure. Handbuilt, solar powered, ti...

Finally the heady social whirl of Dunedin calms enough to give me time to crack open the laptop and delete a slew of spam and remember my bl...

Being on holiday means wandering aimlessly around small towns one would never otherwise stop in. In Port Chalmers this mostly means window ...

Dunedin was my home from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s, from my mid-teens to my early twenties. In no particular order: my daughter was ...

The sun creaks up the hallway like a polite, early-rising, house guest. I wrote this haiku before we set off on our journey... in anticipa...