About righta

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I'm a freelance writer/editor living in a small rural town in the Far North of New Zealand. I guess I'm semi-retired, but I seem to be as busy now as I was when I was news editor on a daily newspaper. I'm rediscovering the highs and lows of life in an area which has much to offer but has been largely neglected by the wider world: The mod cons of civilization cannot be taken for granted here. It's a world which is not insulated from the vagaries of nature in the way that a city is, where people have to be their own builders and electricians and plumbers and mechanics, where neighbors walk into each others' houses for a chat and a coffee ... but all of this will be described as I continue my daily musings, so I'll leave you now to find your way to my blog .....

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Location:

New Zealand

Primary occupation:

writer/editor

Dream occupation:

writer/editor

I like:

people, conversation, debate, trees, rain, wind, sun

Favorite writers:

Mostly NZ writers: Maurice Gee, Witi Ihimaera, Maurice Shadbolt, a great crop of new young writers

Favorite books:

Maurice Shadbolt's The Lovelock Version,Peter Hawes' Tasman's Lay

Favorite newspapers:

None worth reading in NZ

Favorite magazines:

National Geographic, NZ Geographic

Favorite music:

Blues, jazz, soul

Favorite movies:

Not a big movie fan. The English Patient

Favorite TV shows:

Currently Boston Legal and The West Wing

Favorite teams:

Hurricanes, All Blacks

Favorite quote:

either all of it matters or none of it does - steinbeck