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The advertisements showing us what mothers want on Mother’s Day – a sleep-in, breakfast in bed, a good cup of coffee that someone else has made – are in stark contrast to what most mornings look like for mums in Aotearoa. Which I guess is precisely t

When I was a little child in Invercargill, there was a gorgeous public library in a Gothic stone building, and someone there liked little things. In a glass case was perhaps the most incongruous diorama ever to grace a children’s library: a bare fiel

Kia ora! Hi. Over here. Yes, that’s me waving at you from the centre of your face. I know we’ve had an awkward relationship at times. Like that time I wouldn’t stop dripping while you were trying to impress the school principal and you ended up with

The Turnbull Library has not one, but two locks of hair that grew on the head of this country’s most famous – and perhaps most fetishised – writer. The cult of personality that surrounds Katherine Mansfield is remarkable, and 133 years after her birt

Spending much more time at home over the past two years has refocused many of us on our skincare regimes. Not being able to access our beloved beauty therapists, seeing far too much of our own mug on Zoom calls, wearing less makeup and having a littl

1 Perfect for warming up winter evenings at home, Ecoya’s new limited-edition fragrance is a sweet, velvety, comforting and creamy one. The Madison candle combines notes of cassis cream, blackberries and honeycomb atop warm wintery notes of sandalwoo

There’s much talk these days about how damaging it is to be glued to our phones 24/7. Constant scrolling is bad for our mental health, we’re told, sets a bad example for our kids, and even causes neck and back pain. But there’s another side to tech:

The first line on the back of the memoir Prague in My Bones tells us that author Jindra Tichý is one of the most influential Czechs living abroad. The academic, writer and author of 19 novels has been living in Dunedin for the past 35 years. How she

Brittney Griner is a rock star of the sports world: dreadlocks, tattoos, some level of controversy, one heck of a basketball player, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and a six-time WNBA All-Star. Her name is probably only familiar to the most hardco

I did not have “hit by cyclone” on my personal bingo card of climate change risk. Rising sea levels, flooding, mini-tornado (we get a few of those in our area), slips, droughts – I had mentally considered all those scenarios. Indeed, we made the deci

There are 140,000 more women in Aotearoa than men. That’s the equivalent of a city the size of Tauranga. Imagine if we were treated not as niche or a special-interest group, but as the majority? What would our society look and feel like? In my wildes