

Why Giving back to your community is good for you.
Its official. New Zealanders are generous by nature. The 2018 World Giving Index, a study commissioned by the Charities Aid Foundation...


Find Your Soundtrack
Image: Jesse Frohman :Kurt Cobain; "Stage No. 2" I distinctly remember the first time I heard ‘Alive’ by Pearl Jam. It came up on our...


Books for the fireside
Image credit : Alisa Anton I will not lie, Winter is most definitely not my favourite season. I like to be outside, but I feel the cold...


The day we lost our innocence
On the 15th of March 2019 everything changed. A gunman went into two Christchurch Mosques unprovoked and with an incomprehensible level...


How much of our lives should we leave to chance?
One of my favourite movies of all time comes from 1990s: “Sliding Doors” a rom-com that unusually for that genre, makes you think. The...


The joy of trying something new
2019, I have decided, is going to be the year to be more conscious of the life I want to create. This year heralds a change of career...


Life is a Novel
So far, I am lucky to have had four decades bouncing around with all the other souls on this planet, and when I look back, I sometimes...


Fallen Angels and other catastrophes
Image credit: Gaston Roulstone Christmas is always going to be a little tricky for us. My Dad died just before Christmas three years ago...


The Beautiful Journey of Unbecoming
In life, right from the moment we take our first breath, we are pointed like arrows in the direction of what we should become. As a...


Vitamin Sea
I grew up by the ocean., on the East Coast of the South Island near a sleepy little village called Motunau. It’s a kind of well kept...


Vulnerability and The Importance of Deep Connection
Loneliness is an emotion we all suffer at some point. It is universal, it transcends culture, time and social stature. It’s our human...


Ditch the labels
Did you, as a child, somehow end up with a tidy little label attached to you? Were you the sporty one? The smart one? The joker that...





























