455 Remarkable Days (On Staying In One Place For A Long Time)
For the last 455 days, one very settled position (we bought a house!) offered unexpected views, and a brand new perspective on what I’d previously considered familiar scenery. . .
Category Archives: New Zealand
Flavor of The Week: Pavlova
The perfect Kiwi woman knows the tricks of a perfect pavlova. But I’m only an immigrant, so I cheated: with $4.95, 5 minutes and the premixed Edmonds Pavlova Magic.
Diaper Distractions: Camping With Baby For The First Time
Terrific idea, tiring practice. If your first experience camping with baby was similar to ours, it went something like this…
Postage Stamp: Haast, New Zealand
I imagine giants above us, and stare up the narrow cliff sides as if up their bare legs; for the mountains of rock debris could be some fantastical gate destroyed by enormous hands.
Recipe For A Kiwi Christmas
In the South Island, I console myself with another summer of surfing Santas and that pinch of white dandruff clinging to the mountains. This is Christmas in New Zealand.
With Wakatipu Below: A Helicopter Journey To Cecil Peak
Queenstown’s aluminum roofs shrink to bread boxes, then postcards, as we gain height; at 4,500 feet, it’s a crumb-sized civilization clinging to Lake Wakatipu’s eastern shore…
Flavor of The Week: ANZAC Biscuits
Butter. What survived thousands of miles and months of transportation in order to reach New Zealand’s soldiers in World War I? Love, hope and a lot of butter.
