I’ve learned a new word while we’ve been traveling around New Zealand: tapu. It’s a Maori word that means, literally, “unknown”. I was told that the Maori use it when referring to anything new or unexplored. They consider the tapu to be sacred. The tapu therefore...  read more

Marja and I are getting married today on the shore of the sea, about an hour west of Auckland, at Piha Beach near Lion Rock, New Zealand.We've been planning this in one way or another for the past three years. So hard to believe that our time is here and how much we had to go through to arrive at...  read more