Jane Shearer

Endings

All good things must come to an end. As must all mediocre and undesirable things, but our trip completed yesterday was in […]

Jacinda Ardern’s quote “They are us”, spoken in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque attacks, was voted the Massey University quote of […]

One of the great challenges when cycle touring is how to mentally cope with the scale of the task. One end of […]

The hardest step of the journey is the one you take out your front door. After that it’s all downhill (or uphill, […]

I have recently been exposed to the degree of need in our community, a degree that reinforces my belief that society is […]

Yesterday (September 22) was another happy day in New Zealand, as the majority of the country returned to Alert Level 1 conditions, […]

Of the many things that I don’t understand, the vast majority relate to human nature. I have questions like, why don’t people […]

When I was a child I really loved fairy stories. I read every single one that was in the library and was […]

There is something incredibly cathartic about the acts of planting and caring for plants. For me, it was a seminal moment when […]

A new Chinese proverb could read, “Beware Chinese sending fake gifts”. Chris received a present in the mail from China this week. […]