On a dull Tuesday morning in early October 2008, I lost my battle to save our business and property—a French provincial styled restaurant and homestead on a vineyard estate—and with it my job, my reputation, my balance, my clout, my life’s savings, my mind—my life as I knew it. Afterwards, I began writing like a madwoman, and in time a book took shape describing a myriad of experiences and the long journey back to just being me.After our epic loss, we lived for a year in one of the highest houses in Christchurch with an unparalleled view of the Pacific Ocean and the curved coastline. That house of Up Above Down Under and those mercurial skies saved my life. We now live in The House of Cluck-Cluck where I still spend endless hours in our rambling country garden as I dig in the soil tenaciously for answers about my life.
This has been a tough year. But just on schedule Spring decided to make an appearance and I feel so grateful about that. There is something so cheery in every daffodil, not that we have many that have ........
In the afternoon of a really freezing day in the last throes of a long, dark, dreary, windy and rainy winter, we finally had a late snowstorm. As I worried about the tiny lambs on the hillside in fron ........
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Our somewhat wild but somewhat domesticated cat, Ginger, Is full of surprises. She came here as a tiny kitten that had somehow been separated from her mother. Perhaps she still looks for her long ........
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