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The Shell I Carried Home from the Other Side of the World

The Shell I Carried Home from the Other Side of...

Someone asked me on Instagram last week where I'm originally from. So I turned it into a guessing game. (No prize this time.) And most of you nailed it. I'm...

The Shell I Carried Home from the Other Side of...

Someone asked me on Instagram last week where I'm originally from. So I turned it into a guessing game. (No prize this time.) And most of you nailed it. I'm...

Matcha and Meetings

Matcha and Meetings

I'm in Auckland today. Which means I'm sitting at a Starbucks in Browns Bay with a matcha frappuccino, pretending I'm a city person. We don't have these fancy places in...

Matcha and Meetings

I'm in Auckland today. Which means I'm sitting at a Starbucks in Browns Bay with a matcha frappuccino, pretending I'm a city person. We don't have these fancy places in...

I Took My Surfboard to New Plymouth and No One Guessed It

I Took My Surfboard to New Plymouth and No One ...

Last week I posted a photo of myself at the airport. With my surfboard. I turned it into a guessing game. Where is Rina off to? The prize? My Pāua...

I Took My Surfboard to New Plymouth and No One ...

Last week I posted a photo of myself at the airport. With my surfboard. I turned it into a guessing game. Where is Rina off to? The prize? My Pāua...

A Bush Run, a Book, and a Lot of Fun-gus

A Bush Run, a Book, and a Lot of Fun-gus

I decided to actually warm up before the gym the other day. Not on the treadmill. Outside. Through the bush. And it turned into something fun(gus). (Sorry. Not sorry.) Because...

A Bush Run, a Book, and a Lot of Fun-gus

I decided to actually warm up before the gym the other day. Not on the treadmill. Outside. Through the bush. And it turned into something fun(gus). (Sorry. Not sorry.) Because...

A Mother's Day Beach Amble: Shells, Jellyfish and Tafoni Rocks

A Mother's Day Beach Amble: Shells, Jellyfish a...

Mother's Day as an empty nester. No kids to wrangle. No breakfast in bed drama. Just me, the husband, and a Far North beach all to ourselves. Our first stop?...

A Mother's Day Beach Amble: Shells, Jellyfish a...

Mother's Day as an empty nester. No kids to wrangle. No breakfast in bed drama. Just me, the husband, and a Far North beach all to ourselves. Our first stop?...

Kina Shells, Surf, and Mt Taranaki: My W&W Trip

Kina Shells, Surf, and Mt Taranaki: My W&W Trip

The waves were pumping in Taranaki last week. So I packed up my surfboards (and a few kina shells) and called it a "business" trip. I'm coining a new term...

Kina Shells, Surf, and Mt Taranaki: My W&W Trip

The waves were pumping in Taranaki last week. So I packed up my surfboards (and a few kina shells) and called it a "business" trip. I'm coining a new term...