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Expat Life is a Hell of a Drug
An immigrant dad gets clean
Sep 4, 2025
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Dan Keane
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'Streets of Minneapolis' Makes Me Miss 9/11
Not the attacks, the afterglow. The Rising is a bad album but I'd rather live there
Feb 1
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Dan Keane
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Next Year I Will Teach From a Clay Jar
New workshops from your correspondent in fairyland
Dec 18, 2025
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Dan Keane
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Should You Move to New Zealand?
Dec 19, 2024
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Dan Keane
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The Yanks Aren't Coming
Mar 5, 2025
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Dan Keane
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A Day Spent Here Is a Day Not There
Jan 29, 2025
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Dan Keane
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Who's Gonna Move Back Now?
Apr 9, 2025
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Dan Keane
67
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The Americans Are Coming
Jun 13, 2024
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Dan Keane
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New Zealand is a Translation
Nov 21, 2024
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Dan Keane
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Letters to Aotearoa
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Calling Whanganui
We danced with the ghost of a whale
Dec 3, 2025
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Dan Keane
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Eat, Emote, and Not Be England
Do Kiwis have a Thanksgiving?
Nov 26, 2025
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Dan Keane
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Don't Buy an Axe
You can map a nation's borders by the jokes that don't land
Oct 30, 2025
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Dan Keane
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We Were Guaranteed a Haka
Anyone ever shout how much they love you, Gerry?
Oct 16, 2025
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Dan Keane
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No Country for Half-Size Sneakers
Disposable cool on consumerism's farthest shore
Sep 25, 2025
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Dan Keane
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Letters to America
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'Streets of Minneapolis' Makes Me Miss 9/11
Not the attacks, the afterglow. The Rising is a bad album but I'd rather live there
Feb 1
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Dan Keane
27
18
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Eat, Emote, and Not Be England
Do Kiwis have a Thanksgiving?
Nov 26, 2025
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Dan Keane
30
23
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Bad Dads with a Gun
Breaking the myths that got us here
Sep 11, 2025
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Dan Keane
44
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You Got No Secrets to Conceal
Notes from America, Part 2: Salina Confessions
Aug 7, 2025
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Dan Keane
39
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Governed, Careful, and Diet Stoned
Notes from America, Part 1: What's Changed
Aug 4, 2025
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Dan Keane
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Next Year I Will Teach From a Clay Jar
New workshops from your correspondent in fairyland
Dec 18, 2025
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Dan Keane
35
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Expat Life is a Hell of a Drug
An immigrant dad gets clean
Sep 4, 2025
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Dan Keane
116
75
14
Will We Die as Americans? A conversation with Gregory Garretson
Two dudes abroad on travel, endings, and the Most American Thing
Jun 26, 2025
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Dan Keane
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Gregory Garretson
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You're a White American Dude. Why Did You Leave?
On WADAs, MAGAs, and not wasting your life
May 29, 2025
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Dan Keane
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A Day Spent Here Is a Day Not There
On the cost of living abroad
Jan 29, 2025
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Dan Keane
67
63
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Calling Whanganui
We danced with the ghost of a whale
Dec 3, 2025
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Dan Keane
39
35
5
Eat, Emote, and Not Be England
Do Kiwis have a Thanksgiving?
Nov 26, 2025
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Dan Keane
30
23
3
Don't Buy an Axe
You can map a nation's borders by the jokes that don't land
Oct 30, 2025
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Dan Keane
31
19
2
We Were Guaranteed a Haka
Anyone ever shout how much they love you, Gerry?
Oct 16, 2025
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Dan Keane
58
22
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No Country for Half-Size Sneakers
Disposable cool on consumerism's farthest shore
Sep 25, 2025
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Dan Keane
30
26
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Is New Zealand Better, or Just Behind?
What timeline are we in?
Sep 18, 2025
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Dan Keane
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