Welcome to Heather’s Homilies
Homily: Extreme Poverty in the US (plus Tweets)
I was Skyping with a friend in the US yesterday, and somehow we got onto the topic of people who live on the streets. He made the comment that you almost never see them in New Zealand. They are there of course. One of our biggest problems is a shortage of housing,...
Homily: Alabama and the GOP’s Future (plus Tweets)
It's been almost a week since I did a tweets post, so you may have been wondering where I was. Mostly, I've been out of town at medical appointments. For obvious reasons, I don't announce when I'm leaving town on the internet ahead of time! When I got back, it took me...
10 Dec 2017 Homily: Living in New Zealand (plus Tweets)
I began this tweets post yesterday, but (obviously) didn't finish it. Now, I've just got back from lunch at the lovely Lauren's Lavender Farm (the pic is one I took in January) and I don't feel much like writing. However, I don't want to waste yesterday's efforts....
Trump and the Jerusalem Decision (plus Tweets)
Tweets are about the least important thing on my mind at the moment. On Wednesday morning I had a bad fall. Walking is never that easy for me, but now every step is agony. Still, that's actually not the worst of my problems. 3½ hours later my landlord told me she was...
Homily: Some Men Have An Attitude Problem (plus Tweets)
Today's homily got its inspiration from an article reader Linda Calhoun sent me a few days ago. It's called '1 in 4 men don't think exposing themselves constitutes sexual harassment, survey finds'. This absolutely blew me away. There are still a large number of tweets...
Michael Flynn: Fox News vs. CNN
The big news all over the world continues to be that US President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI. He has pleaded guilty to one count, although the court documents detail evidence of other lies. This is going...
Trump’s Tweets – News or Bad Behaviour?
I'm on a different computer today, with a keyboard that's playing havoc with my already bad typing! I've been struck by the nightmare of the latest Windows 10 update, which so far has taken almost 21 hours on my laptop and is still going strong. Is it just me, or is...
Octopuses are Cool (plus Tweets)
I was trying to think of something to write about for this tweets post from the plethora of topics available. However, I've got a cold, and I'm still recovering from a day Christmas shopping in Taupo with my mother, so my brain's not working. So in the meantime, I was...
Heather’s Homily – Interrupting Women (plus Tweets)
Today's homily was inspired by a tweet sent to me by Ann German. (See Human Rights Tweets below.) It led me to an article in Aeon called 'How men continue to interrupt even the most powerful women'. The authors did a statistical analysis of how often the female...
Heather’s Homily – Political Partisanship (and Tweets)
Any time you look at Twitter, there are multiple tweets about politics. Most of them take a strong partisan stance. Whenever I tweet about politics, I take a side too. It's the same the world over. However, I notice that in the US there seems to be a much greater...
Heather’s Homily – Driving And Physical Disability
Today's homily was inspired by the quote below, which is from this tweet from Owen Barder. I am fed up with the way we are all being frogmarched towards driverless cars. What I really want is carless cities. I understand there are a lot of people who feel like that,...
21 Nov 2017: Heather’s Homily – Partisanship Politics and Sexual Abuse
I wasn't sure what to write for my homily today, then I switched on Fox News's 'The Five'. The first segment was about Hillary Clinton declaring that Bill Clinton wouldn't have been elected originally if Fox News had been around at the time. She may be right. That was...