Recollections of Living the Life In FijiDadWhen I was asked to think of a time in my life when I felt totally loved, I remember thinking about lying beside my father with my head on…Aug 25, 2020Aug 25, 2020
Recollections of Living the Life In FijiSome Saturday MorningsOn a Saturday morning, we would meet at about 9 o'clock and walk one mile along the main road to where the dairy factory sat on the hill…Aug 24, 2020Aug 24, 2020
Recollections of Living the Life In FijiA Dark MomentStuck in one of the ground floor back rooms of the corporation, it was just the CEO and me. Given the toxicity of our organisation I had to…Aug 23, 2020Aug 23, 2020
Recollections of Living the Life In FijiSchool Time Prawn HarvestA dull mid-grey Dr Livingstone-style safari jacket with shorts of the same colour was the uniform at the Boys Grammar School in the early…Jun 14, 2020Jun 14, 2020
Recollections of Living the Life In FijiFirst gigWhen I was about 13 or 14 my friends and I formed a band. My mother encouraged this as it kept us off the streets. We were from the poor…Jun 11, 2020Jun 11, 2020
Recollections of Living the Life In FijiPaddling the GauntletWe made canoes out of flattened corrugated roofing iron. We folded up the iron sheet portrait-length, stuck lengths of timber at each end…May 12, 2020May 12, 2020
Recollections of Living the Life In FijiBig HeadsAt primary school, a friend told me I had a big head. My immediate response was to say the bigger the head, the bigger the brain. In…May 12, 2020May 12, 2020
Recollections of Living the Life In FijiShould have been more attentiveWhen I was about 5 years old I pulled apart a hibiscus flower, tore out the sticky centrepiece and stuck it up one of my nostrils instead…May 12, 2020May 12, 2020