OpinionDeborah Hill Cone10 ways to make sense of BrexitCOMMENT: Last week was one of those times when you sensed how thin the membrane is between the functioning intact life and its total destruction.26 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill Cone'Leavers' framing EU as bogeymanCOMMENT: This morning I got up, meditated for five minutes, staring fixedly at a lemon, and then thought "I know, I'll write a column about Brexit".19 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Shame is a cause - not a remedyCOMMENT: After Stanford University rape case, like many of you, I've been thinking about what we can do to eradicate what has been called "rape culture".12 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Let's get ahead by saving neuronsCOMMENT: Getting rid of these surplus mental activities. So the following mental topics are going in the landfill to free up brainpower.05 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeLife lessons from Donald TrumpCOMMENT: In the interests of not being such a drip, I have decided I could take some pointers from Donald Trump.30 May 04:00 AM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Lessons on life's learning curveCOMMENT: Kids are being taught they can just google anything. There was no Google when I was at school. But here is what I wish I had learnt.23 May 06:28 AM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Peering into the lives of others through FacebookCOMMENT: Facebook is simply millions of lighted-up houses to peer into. But you can't go home to all of them, writes Deborah Hill Cone.15 May 09:45 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Actions more important in equality debateCOMMENT: You need to do more than just tell people to be less sexist, because it simply doesn't work, writes Deborah Hill Cone.08 May 09:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Why I will never text again while drivingCOMMENT: I have made a solemn promise to myself and my children that there is one rule I will now follow. I will never text in the car again.02 May 12:44 AM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Covertly cool Bronagh has me girl-crushingCOMMENT: I rather shocked myself by thinking maybe I rather admire Bronagh Key. I know! Wacky! But please keep reading.24 Apr 05:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: The wonders of Hamilton - the musicalCOMMENT: It sounds weird but this Broadway musical is a reminder of what is truly great and inspiring about America.18 Apr 01:54 AM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: School helper's life lessonCOMMENT: Hey kids, you really don't need to exit through the gift shop. An experience can be just as good even if you don't get to buy something.10 Apr 07:27 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: None but the brave will face up to an addiction to pornCOMMENT: We may be better at talking about depression, but there is still deep shame in being honest about other forms of mental illness, writes Deborah Hill Cone.07 Mar 12:36 AM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: 'Sad face' over Facebook follyI wish Facebook had introduced a chin-stroking emoji ... or an 'I'll get back to you on that' button, writes Deborah Hill Cone.29 Feb 01:02 AM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeUni students should share roomsCOMMENT: Sharing a room was possibly the best thing that ever happened to me. So give your room-mate a chance. You never know, writes Deborah Hill Cone.21 Feb 09:23 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Let's joyfully embrace differenceGovernment's dismissive attitude to those who don't fit in reflects poorly on NZ, writes Deborah Hill Cone.14 Feb 08:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: The soothing illusion of delusionThey are many and they are powerful - we all use defence mechanisms, writes Deborah Hill Cone.08 Feb 12:09 AM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeHelp your child prep for a new schoolFeel-good soap can't fix back-to-school challenges, so it's up to us now, writes Deborah Hill Cone.01 Feb 05:19 AM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Mindset over matter trumps allWe are not brains-on-sticks, and a simple idea could revolutionise the way we unlock our potential, writes Deborah Hill Cone.24 Jan 08:35 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Self-plagiarism hides poverty of ideasThe self-plagiarist tries to take undeserved credit for the work as new and original when they know the material was derived from a previous source, writes Deborah Hill Cone.10 Jan 09:52 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: I'm a shambles - and that's fineSo far this year I have read a chick lit book where someone gets Jean Cocteau, Jacques Cousteau and Jean Michel Jarre mixed up.03 Jan 04:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Here's to a less sparkly holidaySooo. How's your Christmas sparkle?20 Dec 09:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Improving drop by dropMy therapist has gone away and since my last appointment I have already gone off the rails and drunk too much and ended up ringing the one person I should never contact, writes Deborah Hill Cone.13 Dec 08:26 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: 30 random things I have learnedLast year about this time I wrote a list of 30 random things I had learnt, writes Deborah Hill Cone. Guess what? Twelve months on and turns out all I've done is learn all the same darn things all over again.07 Dec 06:30 AM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: My new secret to inner peace - and it's not colouring booksAll those colouring books do not work for everyone, writes Deborah Hill Cone. I've started doing this thing where you just pause and write down five random things you notice around you.29 Nov 08:31 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Pressure of perfection never endsDeborah Hill Cone crashes her car into a shiny new Audi and has a revelation about her life. My head resting on the steering wheel, I heard a loud inner ding. I realised something important.22 Nov 08:27 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Atrocities hard to explain to childrenSo far my explanation has been pretty pathetic, writes Deborah Hill Cone. Extremists, fundamentalists, blah blah, crazy people, no, of course it's not going to happen here!15 Nov 08:19 PM
OpinionFor Kerry, who ran his own raceI'm not sure I should be writing this. There are others - colleagues, family - who are far better placed to do it.18 Oct 04:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: When little bits of trauma leak outI never knew there was such a thing as a distance violation; it's when you have valid grounds to expect someone to be there for you and they are gone, writes Deborah Hill Cone.11 Oct 08:17 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Self-esteem takes a hit in the kitchenI am a terrible cook, writes Deborah Hill Cone. So I don't know what possessed me to invite people for dinner. I had a revelation this week about why I'm so useless at everything after reading a book27 Sep 08:21 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Journalism is in a state of upheavalWe don't need more people like me, writes Deborah Hill Cone. We don't need more introspective bloggers or writers noodling on about personal crises and cupcakes.20 Sep 09:32 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: When the best advice is our ownBoth my kids have a mean perfectionist streak; I sometimes fear they are going to fire me, writes Deborah Hill Cone. We need to remember that mistakes are okay.13 Sep 09:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Easing the refugee sufferingThe poet W.H. Auden said about suffering: it takes place while someone is eating or just walking dully along or doing a Pump class, writes Deborah Hill Cone.06 Sep 09:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Suffering makes us all the sameI don't find it so easy to feel gentle towards supermodels having a hard Fashion Week or kind to bestselling gurus with their own problems, writes Deborah Hill Cone. This is even though I know absolutely no one has an easy life.30 Aug 05:00 PM
