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Rachel McAlpine

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Rachel McAlpine


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McAlpine and her five sisters grew up in small-town vicarages in Canterbury, New Zealand. When she was 10 the family moved to Christchurch, where she attended Christchurch Girls High School and Canterbury University, graduating BA and Senior Scholar. She was married twice: to civil engineer Grant McAlpine (1969-1981) and to artist Michael Smither (1988-1992).

After four years in Geneva she moved to Masterton, New Zealand. There she raised four children, taught high school, wrote her first poetry book, and gained a Dip. Ed (Massey University) and B.A. Hons (Victoria University of Wellington).

McAlpine says that her career swerved abruptly in May 1995, when she first saw a web site. As a writer, she immediately realized that traditional writing
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Closing a WordPress blog — sadly

Dear friends, my posts here on WordPress are becoming few and far between. There’s a reason. I’ve been feeling overloaded with my commitments to online platforms and social media, and I’m cutting back. (Remember, I was born in 1940.) Most of my work these days is devoted to my podcast, Learning How To Be Old, […]

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How To Be Old

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Humming

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Fixing Mrs Philpott

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Farewell Speech

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