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Jul
27. Villa Cimbrone
All the hoohah surrounding the recent Michelin visit to New Zealand reminded me of my own brush with a star
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Always be yourself. Unless you can be a pirate. Then be a pirate. Or Batman. Batman works too
15
Jul
26. Milo and Me.
It’s not easy carrying the show pony gene.
The line between observant and performative is thin. Thinner still if
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17
Jun
25. Limerence
“It was the worst day ever" Ainhoa says when I ask how she met husband Sebastian. The two newlyweds
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25
May
24. New York Groove.
“Bro. Are you a photographer?"
I was standing on 34th between 8th and broadway, just west of the AMC
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12
May
23. Are we there yet?
"I don’t know that anything will come of it” said Anna managing expectations.
Anna had passed my portrait
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20
Apr
22. ( Mic drop )
It wasn't failure that frightened me. We were old friends. It was success. We'd only ever passed each other in the hall.
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16
Apr
21. Cards on the table.
Anyone can take a picture. Not everyone can tell a story.
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07
Apr
20. The ultimate driving machine.
Greg and I have been seeing each other on and off for nearly a year now.
We were getting on
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31
Mar
19. Oh the places we’d go.
Apparently the more times you’ve failed at something, the closer you are to success. In which case I’m
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16
Mar
18.The fifth wife.
I wrote about adoption and tuakiri, - identity - here. It wasn’t the whole story though. Not by a long chalk.
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