Archive - November 2022

The joke is on us now. Not ha-ha as in Jim Gaffigan’s “eat fresh” routine, but ironic ha-ha. New Zealand Rock-N-Roll leaves me quaking in my boots. Not the rock and roll played live in pubs and at the theatre (the ABBA tribute band was great fun!). But the kind that causes the whole south island to shift in the wee hours of the morning. Every place has its potential for earthly disaster. Whether it be wildfires, hurricanes or earthquakes (to name a few), you can’t escape that dark looming cloud that can change your world in a heartbeat. When…

In one of my previous posts, I shared our family’s first coast-to-coast journey across (and the first glimpse of) the south island of New Zealand. I couldn’t have known then how often we would take that same breathtaking route over the coming year: As I write this, it is a year to the day that we made that road trip, and I am in disbelief that a year can vanish so quickly. Our family has experienced so much, yet so little, in that time. So today, one year in, I’d like to share some impressions on our New Zealand adventure…