Author: Andrew Mackay

Category: Love Letters, Roots

Clowning Around

When my eldest son, Matt, was about three years old, my wife was working evening and night shifts as a nurse on the dementia and palliative care wards in a nursing home.

Many mornings Matt and I had hit the road — him for daycare and me to work — before she got home from an all-nighter. Continue reading

Category: About Pages, Copywriting, Work

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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Illustration of a make believe castle on a blue night sky
Category: About Pages, Love Letters, Roots

Make. Believe. Copywriter.

I never thought I’d end up being a copywriter for twenty-plus years on three continents, run two and a half marathons, train to teach yoga in India, Canada, Austria and the Czech Republic — and actually teach it in Australia, Canada and Malta. They just seemed like good ideas at the time.

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Leonard Cohen black & white photo
Category: Love Letters

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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Għar Dalam Cave & Museum Elephantine molars sign
Category: About Pages, Work

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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