by Heather Hastie | Dec 16, 2017 | Tweets, USA
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,...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 15, 2017 | Tweets, US Politics
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!...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 8, 2017 | International Politics, Middle East, Religion, 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...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 30, 2017 | 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...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 27, 2017 | Tweets, USA, Women
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...
