All Hail the Sun

I made it through a Wellington winter, in a leaky old beach house with rain and wind nearly every day for months. Not what I expected on my adventure. Spring is here now, with sun, perfumed air, bright flowers, and the ability to be outside the house. What I’ve learned: I want to be with

I gotta work

I’ve been here in Paraparaumu (“scraps from the earth oven” in Maori) for about a month now, working and learning a kazillion things every day, mostly about money, computers, cars, phones, and systems of health care. Left brain, techy, not my forte! Pretty tiring so I have not been here on my blog. Sorry. Life

Day “teen” in isolation

It’s New Years Eve in managed isolation, NZ, a serious endeavor to keep a country safe. At home things are crazy as usual, with fascists wanting to deny voting by our citizens. I’m eating some figgy pudding. Black gooey substance with butter, figs, raisins, some alcohol, nutmeg, cloves, orange peel. Though it’s summer here, the

Day “seeven” in managed isolation

Hello friends. Thanks for reading this account of my living and working in New Zealand. I arrived on the summer solstice December 21, and have been in a hotel room run by the New Zealand government. They bring me food, and I go outside several times a day to walk around the courtyard. I get

January 1, 2021. Day twelve managed isolation

Southerlies from Antarctica find the crack in my window. I’m fortunate to be here. I’m making plans to leave in 3 days, no mask, and find my way to Wellington. I’ve been having lucid dreams of being back in my childhood school, being on a space mission from the garage of my home in New

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