Yet scenes and imagery of Mary churning butter and Laura’s palpable joy from receiving her first real doll for Christmas remain in my mind’s eye even to this day. It made me smile. I was always a girly girl. Now I’m just a very feminine woman. Some things don’t change. I stil...
Michael Martin Murphey - The Cowboy Way. You never go wrong on any music from Michael Martin Murphey. Sung with passion and integrity, this man is one of the great music artists of the west. He has sung from solos to singing live with full Orchestras - and is always appreciated and ad...
by Eve Sutton and Lynley Dodd — This was Dame Lynley Dodd’s first publication, written by her cousin-in-law. Though this story is a very simple rhyming cumulative tale, I think it says something about New Zealand attitudes regarding itself and other countries at the time. — Another NZ ...