When my eldest son was about three years old my wife was working evening and night shifts as a dementia and palliative care nurse.
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A Clueless Crew Page
As important as About Us and About the Team and Meet the Crew pages are to working some warmth and welcoming into an organization’s website, the grind in getting these stories across the finish line is often not the writing, it’s getting the backstory.
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Make. Believe. Copywriter.
I never believed I’d end up being a copywriter for twenty-plus years on three continents, run two and a half marathons, learn to teach yoga in India, Canada, Austria and the Czech Republic — and actually teach it in Australia (Good idea Wendy!), Canada and Malta. They all just seemed like good ideas at the time.
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Less of Leonard Cohen
“You know who said it best? Leonard Cohen. He meditated all those years at Mt. Baldy Zen Center, often for twelve hours at a time. In an interview, he said his storyline just wore itself out.”
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Destination: Questions
Passenger traffic to and from Malta International Airport (for perspective, keep in mind that this is an archipelago of three islands with one airport, so whomever comes down, for the most part, goes back up) has increased from 4,290,304 in 2014, to 6,808,177 in 2018.
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Sun Water Reports
Bermuda rooftops are clad with white-painted (traditionally limestone) tiles and meant to be kept immaculately clean because they are the front line in the collection of rainwater.
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Yoga for the Birds
When I’m not writing client copy, doing an abysmal job at updating this website, or looking for more copywriting gigs, I teach small group and private yoga lessons. In the fall of 2014 I was subbing for another teacher at the Maritim Antonine Hotel & Spa in Malta.
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A Brief Cover Letter Intro
Someone once counselled Stephen Hawking that each equation he included in his book, “A Brief History of Time” — the sort of book that he hoped would sell well in airport bookstores — would halve its sales.
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