Some changes are visible, some are not. But how obvious a change is has very little to do with the magnitude of the shift. Since moving to Wellington, I have found myself doing something very small, which to anyone else would seem entirely insignificant, but to me, it’s a biggie. Shorts....

It’s primitive, but whenever I visit a new place I am intent on discovering how the people are different to me. I immediately file the distinctions between us, then decide what I like and can reasonably assimilate. So, in the interests of illuminating the subject, if only though my own...

Is it true that a person is defined not by what they throw away but by what they keep? After reducing my extensive 28 years of collected goods into one and a half suitcases for a leap over the ditch only two short months ago, this is what I’ve learned. Spare me the eye-rolls and ‘I...