New Zealand Listener

Winging it

As 2022 comes to an end, we need to remind ourselves that things could, in fact, be a lot worse, writes Listener editor KARYN SCHERER.

My home office in the bush-clad hills of Titirangi is not an ideal workplace. Unfortunately, I never get sick of the view. During the first Covid lockdown in 2020, the air was so clear I could gaze at almost every house across the Auckland isthmus, and beyond to

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