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…7 min read·Aug 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…1 min read·Aug 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…2 min read·Aug 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…1 min read·Jun 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…2 min read·Jun 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…1 min read·May 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…1 min read·May 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…1 min read·May 12, 2020----