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Emma McGeorge

Press Service International

Emma is an Italian-South African with a New Zealand passport and an international heart. She spent years training student choirs and co-running a puppeteering business, before working for a humanitarian organisation in New Zealand (7 years) and Papua New Guinea (3 years). Currently a nomad living between various countries and towns, Emma's deep joy is in writing, music, cooking up an Italian storm, and taking time to listen to people’s stories.

Read Emma's creative expressions at http://www.girlkaleidoscope.wordpress.com or https://pngponderings.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/finding-the-beauty/

Emma’s previous articles may be viewed at www.pressserviceinternational.org/emma-mcgeorge.html

  • Make way for the funk

    Sometimes life does a runner on you.

  • Are We There Yet? 125 Years of Gender Equality in the Making

    On 19th September 2018, New Zealand Suffrage celebrated 125 years. And rightly so. We were the first country in the Commonwealth to graduate a female with a Bachelor of Arts. We boast the first woman ever ordained into Anglican priesthood, and the first pilot (incidentally, yes, a woman) to fly direct from England to New Zealand.

  • Defiant Hope: A Reflection on Resilience

    “The world is indeed full of peril. And in it there are many dark places: but still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

  • The Bookshop (a movie), life (a bravery), and other honest reviews

    “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • What doesn’t kill you… doesn’t kill you

    “Pain and suffering are a part of life.” There – all the sage wisdom you will ever need to hear in one short sentence.

  • The art of selfish giving

    There are some words in the English language which find themselves manipulated into all sorts of forms, colloquialisms and variations, expanding that word until it explodes into a many-faceted prism which will shine in almost any conversation.

  • PTSD and me

    Last week I read a quote which pretty much sums up my current status: “This too shall pass. It might pass like a kidney stone, but it will pass.”

  • When Jesus was a pop star

    The rain trickled in shiny rivers down the car window, blurring the outside world into a grey, muffled cocoon. 

  • Hate like Jesus

    Since the dawn of the human era — when the first son born into this world murdered the second son born into this world — we have found hatred an easy weapon to pick up and brandish.

  • When women crucify women

    Despite having lived on three different continents and in multiple ethnic, religious and social settings, I have not yet met a woman who has not, at some point in her life, experienced gender inequality,..