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Another Year Bites The Dust

Maggie — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:09:05 +0000

Down here in Christchurch, New Zealand (aka QuakeZone), 2011 has been unforgettable – and not in a good way. Admittedly, that first big quake – the one that set off all the others – was in 2010. But this year we’ve had literally thousands of aftershocks (some, incredibly, more violent than the original earthquake). We’ve...

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We Remember

Maggie — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:15:45 +0000

It seems incredible to me that ten years has already passed since 9-11 stopped being my friend’s birthday and became instead a symbol of terrorism. Ten years since I woke to images so horrifying, so emotionally overwhelming that I struggled to comprehend them. Ten years since I waited by the phone for news of our...

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Remember Me?

Maggie — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:12:28 +0000

Hi! Yep, I’m still here. I’ve been off-line a while – a loooong while – three months, in fact – and yes, I do have the odd excuse (including, on 22nd February, another horrific earthquake, so destructive it pretty much flattened what remained of our already-shaken inner city). Still, I’m sorry I haven’t been more...

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Keeping Count

Maggie — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:10:09 +0000

Christchurch’s earthquake tally since 4th September: 2158. Maggie’s WIP tally to date: 11 chapters. Days until Christmas: 64. Likelihood of Maggie keeping her grip on sanity beyond Christmas: low. Let’s face it, I’ve got too much to do on the writing front, too much to do on the Christmas front, and with a fresh quake...

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Over 1000 Quakes? No way!

Maggie — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:06:22 +0000

News? Um… well, we’re still here, rocking and rolling with no sign the aftershocks are about to stop. (Last count: 1111 quakes since 4th September.) A few days last week were almost quake-free – and I didn’t like it. Not that I’m enjoying the aftershocks – but the sudden lack of them was weird. Then,...

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