Entitled to feel homesick because you have a job that makes you travel? Carrie feels like home to me, and being with her is being home. We’re both a bit homesick.
How You Know New Zealand is Smaller than Other Places
The work environment in New Zealand is smaller than other places. In thinking. At the library, and at the workplace, it’s interesting to experience working in New Zealand.
I got my library card
What 4 books would you check out at your first library visit in a year?
What Are the Odds?
An odd mix of people brought together by a hat.
What I Learned On My New Zealand Mobile About Feeding Zebras Vitamins
Accents are funny. The way we say mobile, Zebra, and Vitamins in the US are different than the way they say them in Britain or New Zealand. Here’s why 16 zebras on your New Zealand mobile is better than eating vitamins.
To Our World Family: Home Is Where Your Cracked Mug Is
We’ve built families in various places around the world. Home is where your cracked mug is. From Nicaragua to New Zealand, the human family is strong and beautiful.
Spring has sprung in New Zealand
A great feeling of spring in New Zealand after a cold, wet winter. Most wonderful is the return of the sun. We’ve lived now for 5 months in New Zealand.
Ode On A “Selfish” Cloud
A rumination and poem on a selfish cloud. Clouds blocking the New Zealand spring sun when all I wanted was the cloud to bugger off so I could get some sun.
x-pleening the nu zeelun ix-sent
Want to understand the history of the New Zealand accent, and learn how to speak like a New Zealander (Kiwi) yourself?
Are You Moving to New Zealand… Like Permanently?
I don’t know if I’ve explained this very well. No, we’re not moving to New Zealand. But I think the confusion I’ve heard from people this week (in the USA) comes from their knowing that we’ve gotten jobs here in…