I went for a morning walk and was joined by some friends. Whenever the news gets me down, I go for a walk. It helps me to clear my mind, bring me back to the present moment, and concentrate on …
It was dark when I got home. Standing on the front deck, I looked out into the pitch blackness towards the olive grove. I knew something was out there. I grabbed a flashlight and went down into the grove.
Sometimes the right people land on your front door at just the right time. That’s what happened when I was thinking about a book trailer and two fabulous HelpX volunteers came to stay with us: Emilie and Jeremie. I didn’t …
“We think we need to fly you to Auckland,” Jennifer said on the phone. She’s my publicist at Random House New Zealand. “What for?” I asked. “To be on TVNZ’s Breakfast. They want to talk to you.”
My publisher was coming to lunch, and I was nervous. She wanted to see the property and meet CJ and me, but she wanted something else as well. She wanted to talk to CJ about changing his name. What if …
The man on my front deck looked like he had teleported through a time machine, straight out of the 1960s. He was wearing dark sunglasses with octagonal, gold wire frames. His sideburns were long. “You must be Jared,” he said, …
A while back, ‘Moon Travel Guides’ approached me and asked if they could interview me for the new edition of their book, ‘Living Abroad in New Zealand’. They found me through this blog and our ‘Moon Over Martinborough’ olive oil. …
The Wairarapa Times-Age ran an article on my ‘Moon over Martinborough’ blog last week. They asked me to pose sitting awkwardly on our fence, pretending to do a blog post with the olive grove behind me and a bottle of …
My ‘Moon over Martinborough’ blog has been named “New Zealand Site of the Month” in the October 2009 issue of NetGuide Magazine. I was sitting at my computer at the government agency where I work when an email came in …
