Personal essays

the opening

The Spinoff: Sunday essay, October 22, 2023

I was the ideal home birth candidate. Fit, healthy, confident, comfortable. Trusted my body. Loved my partner. Read positive birth stories by Ida May Gaskin and none of the pamphlets about inductions, ventouse, or caesareans. Quietly suspected that such interventions were the domain of those less committed, more high-maintenance, less ‘embodied’ than me. 

Follow her home

North & South, January 2023

Tracing the tale of a little house – from Taupō landmark to Raglan family home – raises as many questions as it gives answers.