Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a stellar holiday season, filled with joy, laughter, friends, family, and relaxation. May we all have had time to pause for a moment, reflect on our lives, give thanks for the good, honor the bad, and make plans for our collective better future.
Well, time has […]
It was time. The day had come to move the two bee hives from our place in Christchurch to our place in Wainui.
We’d been talking about this for a few months, but had been putting it off for it was going to be a bit of a tricky endeavor to move two hives built […]
The thing I have missed and still miss from my old life is my house in Kauai. As much as it was hard work and as much as we had to periodically deal with noisy neighbors, I loved that house and loved that island. It was my sanctuary, my place of […]
Earlier in the year, during a break at a workshop I was attending, I was chatting with a male acquaintance when I glimpsed something shimmering from under his shirt collar. “Ooh, what’s that?” I asked. He unbuttoned his collar and showed me a most stunning necklace – somewhat large, set with two or […]
I was having a conversation with a friend in San Francisco only weeks ago about what we would be doing once we returned to New Zealand. My answer went something like, ‘Oh, you know, we’ll probably continue with our land/property search, but who knows how long that will take, because it has to be […]