Entries by Veronika Sophia Robinson

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A Beautiful Birth

Many years ago, in fact it was the first time I was living in England (about 1994), I heard a voice in my dream so real that I wondered if it was a dream. The voice said to me: You will write The Beautiful Birth book. At the time, I was working as a Media […]

Change is in the air

It’s a beautiful Sunday morning here in the Eden Valley: birdsong; sunshine pushing its way through the clouds; the view of green fields, fells and trees from my writing room. I’ve felt the shift towards Autumn for several weeks now. It’s not in the leaves, so much as the light and the chill in the […]

Not-so Organic British Eggs

One thing I’m always banging on about to my teenage daughters is: read the label! You may not know, but in 1993 when I worked as a media officer for the Royal New Zealand Society for the Protection and Care of Animals, I wrote a book about the history of the RSPCA in NZ (The […]

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The War Within

  There’s a lot of discordant energy in the air, particularly over the situation in Palestine and Israel. I see anger in my Facebook newsfeeds; people urging others to take action (or take sides). And there’s anger that others aren’t expressing their anger over the situation. Away from the media frenzy and propaganda, I am […]