Wellywood Woman Diary

Writing buddy 1B sneaks in through the kitchen door. I don’t hear a thing.

I want to make a little something for people who were kind when I broke my leg. ‘Your quince paste’, says my mate 1B. But our quinces…

I re-found this by chance and it goes well with Tū Tonu Mai and Whose Well-being? from 2019.

Over the last couple of years I’ve neglected Throat of These Hours, my project about poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980). And I…

When I get excited — by fear, grief, delight, anger, worry — adrenalin itches under and around my tongue. My pupils dilate. Multiple…

(2017: Saving St Gerard’s *&* Joe’s Place updates this story.)

It’s gold, listening to in-person submissions to the Wellington City Council. I love seeing and hearing people whose submissions are based…

I missed the BRITS. And regretted it. Because it took a while to find the full version of Lorde’s glorious Life on Mars, with David Bowie’s…

This arrived on my Facebook timeline this morning and its clarity, beauty and kindness helped me today. Many thanks for permission to post…

Hang time is a new world wine term for the length of a vine’s growing season; the longer the grapes hang on the vine before harvest, the…

Three mothers-and-film things to celebrate! What a pleasure!

An actor going to movie premier “attends”, an actress “showcases her lithe body” — what I’m saying is: how do I showcase my lithe body?

(ADDED in 2021 only because again it’s winter and again I’m wearing these fingerless gloves as I work.)

I.  I’ve been finishing Mouse, my first short comic, and am researching/writing a play. Being quiet. And it takes a lot to get me out of…

The Problem That was my winter with Muriel Rukeyser, poet and activist (1913–1980), ‘beautiful Muriel, mother of everyone’, as Anne Sexton…

I didn’t much want to go to Zero Dark Thirty. I scare easily at the movies and don’t often watch war films or action films. I love…

(first published 25 July 2015)

People come and go on Twitter. And Melissa Dopp, of Hanover, Virginia, had lots in her life beyond her energetic @reellives Twitter account…

Kathleen’s new film in late 2021 is Rohe Kōreporepo — The Swamp, The Sacred Place, selected for Whānau Mārama, the New Zealand…