New Zealand – Page 6 – Jane Shearer

Can I sell you a bridge?

Can New Zealand afford a new bridge across Auckland harbour? And is such a bridge visionary thinking or an impediment to a sustainable future?

Shared stories cement our connections. That’s my thesis in my novel Broken is Beautiful, just launched, and in life.

Contrasting NZ and Oz. Is the critical difference Ocker Gumption?

Frogs jump out of gradually heating water, but humans stick with failing paths of action. So why do we keep dissing frogs?

Some NZ bookstores won’t stock books referring to vaccination in any way, including my new novel. What does this mean for our society?

When life serves you cucumbers … you could put them on your face. Or, preferably, make great soup.

What is the similarity between singing and biking? In the learning, it turns out, as I discovered this week.

The news of the week in New Zealand has to be Jacinda Ardern’s resignation. The above photo is as close as we […]

Why did we install PV? To save money? Be good planet-savers? Make our own power? Because we’re geeks? A little of everything?

Wearing masks is not normal, then it becomes normal, then it becomes not normal again. What is normal in the time of COVID Scrabble variants?