If I knew it would be the last time that I’d see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep. If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more. If I knew it would be the...

1. The Pyramids 2. The Taj Mahal 3. The Grand Canyon 4. The Panama Canal 5. The Empire State Building 6. St. Peter’s Basilica 7. The Great Wall of China OR 1. To touch 2. To taste 3. To see 4. To hear 5. To feel 6. To laugh 7. and to love You choose.....

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay Mourning is not forgetting...it is an undoing. Every tie has to be untied bit by bit and played across the...

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanisation of our lives... the disastrous by-product of the scientific and technical mentality. Nostra culpa. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits. -- Albert Einstein

My Dad lived most of his life in Upper Hutt long before it became a city (which was in 2 May 1966 - 2 days before my parents' 9th wedding anniversary). He loved living here, built our family home in Mangaroa Hill Road, where he and Mum lived for 48 years before they "downsized". He never wanted to...

Well, can you? Be mighty hard, so many of the things we take for granted use electricity. The fridge, the microwave, washing machine, TV, electric blanket, alarm clock, computer, hot water cylinder.... could you do it? I don't think I could, I like my creature comforts too much. Never been into the...

It's funny how the mind works. If you are expecting to see something, you can sometimes miss that it isn't there, or it is wrong, because your mind just can't click into gear and recognise that what you are looking at isn't correct. Sounds weird doesn't it, but it happens. Staring you right in the...

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of...

If you can share a little bit of kindness each day you can make a difference in someone’s life. If you help others feel a sense of worth, think about the positive moments that touch their lives each day, give a little to someone who is struggling - you can make a difference. It's the little...

My father died of cancer on 23 September 2008. Most of the time it doesn't seem real. I miss him so much. I wish that I could go back in time and save him. I wish so much that I could see his face again and hear his voice and tell him how much I loved him. I know that he knew that, but I didn't...