The Weekly: A Flash of Summer
The Weekly – 30th January 2017 Last week beat me up. I pulled off my two deadlines, and my editors are pleased with the stories, which is a crushing weight lifted. I never appreciate how heavy the experience is – the looming deadline, pressing ‘send’, waiting to hear feedback – until I’m on the other […]
The Weekly: Two Years in Wanaka
The Weekly – 23 January 2017 It’s our two-year anniversary of living in Wanaka! I first stumbled across this tiny alpine town with my sister Erin, while on my first assignment for National Geographic Traveler Magazine. We pronounced it Wa-NA-ka, instead of its proper name, WAN-a-ka. (Erin and I still call it Wa-NA-ka sometimes, just for […]
The Weekly: Being Still
The Weekly – 17 January 2017 I’m not good at being still. I never have been. Whenever my life is quiet, peaceful, routine, I do something to rattle that cage. I’m not sure if I was that way as a child, but I know it started when I hit double digits. Given some of the […]
2017 – The Return of The Weekly
The Weekly – 10th January, 2017 For the first 10 years I lived in New Zealand I wrote an email blog for close family and friends. I called it The Weekly. As I was completely absent from social media, it was my way of keeping in touch. I wrote about my adaptation to a new […]