Practically Perfect…

I am so happy that it’s Spring over here!  I know that many of my friends back in the States are lamenting the end of summer {or rejoicing in the upcoming coolness of Fall}, but I cannot tell you how nice it is to be able to walk to work and see the sun coming [...]

I must be in a particularly pessimistic mood lately.  You ever have one of those days or weeks where it just seems like things keep cropping up?  Those times when your foot is just itching to kick something? My hospital provides our uniforms.  This is nice, but the scrubs rub my neck and I end [...]

I have this thing about expectations – I try not to have them.  Self-preservation method?  Yes, but I’ve also learned that sometimes it’s easy to make the jump from expectations to judgments, and I don’t like to judge something until I’ve experienced it. When I knew that we were going to move to Auckland, I [...]

I want you all to know that skipping Summer stinks!  Here is Auckland’s forecast for the week: I know, I know – I shouldn’t complain.  This is apparently as “winter” as it gets around here, which is way better than the most typical winter day in South Bend, Indiana {and I guess the Midwest is [...]

The internet is a crazy thing.  Through it, you can meet all sorts of people and form lots of random, seemingly unrelated connections.  It’s how we’ve met many of the great people we’re coming to call friends in New Zealand. First, there’s Travis and Brooke.  I “met” them online through an old high school church [...]