I took notes of our various doings as the days passed so I wouldn’t forget important facts/moments/anecdotes, but on the day we visited Hobbiton, my note to self was : “Too glorious to put into words right now! Got a Hobbiton mug cozy from Lisa and a Hobbiton Movie Set t-shirt for myself.” So, […]
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Because AI has put a major crimp in my earning capacity as a professional wordsmith, I’m segueing from copy, content, and features writing and editing to one-to-one virtual-teaching of public speaking to panicky presenters. In the future, I may turn it into a Udemy course so I can teach more than one-on-one, but for now,
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Directly across the street from the Ripple Hotel, where we stayed for two nights, was the Gondola Ride and Luge Slide, so we drove there and went up in the gondola with Helen and Deborah. Helen and Deb went back down in the gondola almost immediately (thinking they could catch us on film coming down
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OK, this is getting ridiculous. As of today, I am NOT listening to my body anymore, because all it has wanted to do is sleep for 10 days. Nearly everybody I know and love is down with something — not all of it COVID, thankfully! — and I have had the absolute fewest, least
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Before I continue on this journal of our time in New Zealand, I want to express how well cared for we were by Helen and Debbie. Helen spent long months deciding where we should go and what we should see during our available 12 days in New Zealand. Plus, for weeks before our arrival,
I don’t want to jinx this, but I’m on pins and needles. I’m on the cusp of landing a seven-month-long dream job: writing campaign ads for Democratic candidates and causes across the country. Yes, a paid job. I can’t imagine a more important position for a layperson to hold until Election Day — other than
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On Sunday, March 10th, Helen, Deborah, Lisa and I visited the Howick Historical Village, where (decades ago) Deb portrayed Maggie, an Irish immigrant to NZ, so she led our tour delightfully. Lisa and I put ourseves in “pillories” for photo ops. Debbie says a female ghost/apparition lives in one of the buildings, and that she
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As we passed through the glass doors from the airport terminal, our hosts Helen Schofield and Deborah Davies stood waiting for us just 30 feet or so away. They captured our arrival in photos. After hugging Helen (who Lisa and I already knew, as she visited our neck of the woods two years
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I voted for Joe Biden in the general election last time (after voting for Bernie Sanders in the primary) for at least two reasons: 1.) His opponent, the former occupier of the White House, was (and remains) the antithesis of everything I believe to be honorable or noble in a human being, whose policies
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Now that I’ve spent several days resting, recovering, and catching up with homebound emails and chores (and recovering from the COVID I caught on the plane on the way back), it’s time to start putting into words, sentences and paragraphs the fabulous time that Lisa Twining and I spent in New Zealand. It’s going to
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