I talk to thousands of business owners and consumers each year. While they are all obviously different – in age, gender, racial and ethic background and life experience – the one thing they have in common is that they are trying to connect – with...
Every year at about this time, newspapers and magazines compile lists of all the things we should have seen or read about, or known about in the past 12 months. At the “dead time” between Christmas and New Year, the media revels in presenting swathes of...
For many of us, New Year’s Eve is the time to throw off all of the ills of the passing year and spend time with good friends and family and party like you mean it – all the while heralding the new year to come. The tradition of New Years is millennia old – in...
Taking a look at recent, positive, uplifting, news stories and yarns, from New Zealand and all around the world, to bring a smile and a bit of cheer. Endangered moth crowned bug of the year In case you missed it, a rare moth found only in certain places in the West...
And so this is Christmas. Without lurching any further into the John Lennon and Yoko Ono song, I’ll just take the opening few words. And so this is Christmas. For many it’s the best time of the year, for some it is simply the worst. No other day in the year generates...