I have always had the palate of an 80-year-old man. My ideal breakfast, lunch and dinner are animal fats on bread. Butter so thick I can see my teeth in it, bacon grease running down my forearm,...
At work, I'm surrounded by beautiful young things who care about fashion, and style. I work alongside them feeling slightly dishevelled, but wearing a lot of make-up to balance things out, writes Kate Oktay.
On New Year’s Eve I weighed myself. This was a mistake, writes Kate Oktay.
It is my last column for this year, and I would like to take the opportunity to say "Goodbye 2020, you absolute dick", writes Kate Oktay.
I am officially a middle-aged woman. When others aren’t around to witness it, I have started sporting a floppy hat, jeans that have not been fashionable in a decade, and gardening gloves, writes...
The bottom of the South Island is an oasis of calm in the middle of a whole world going mad, writes Kate Oktay.
On many levels I imagine I am a fairly disappointing mother, writes Kate Oktay.
For a few months, every couple of years since I was 20, I follow a predictable chain of events. I get enthusiastic, or the guilt climbs to a point where I cannot ignore it anymore, and I resolve to...
Childhood memories are a patchwork; random snatches of scenes mostly hidden, but suddenly surfacing when jolted to consciousness by the smell of sunscreen, or the feeling of flannelette sheet...
Leaving lockdown has been a slow emerging from a world that seemed to stop, writes Kate Oktay.
Predictably enough, the world’s top distraction during these extraordinary times has been a one-season, seven-episode, meth-fuelled, lion-pitted ode to craziness, writes Kate Oktay.
Everyone has something that makes them quite annoying to live with. A tiny, wee thing that even you, the person with the least objective opinion in the world, can admit must be mildly irritating,...
Everyone has something that makes them quite annoying to live with. A tiny, wee thing that even you, the person with the least objective opinion in the world, can admit must be mildly irritating,...
Sometimes it's more about what you don't do. . . writes Kate Oktay.
Lately, there have been a lot of awkward conversations, both real and imagined, writes Kate Oktay.
Because I am a bad person, I go overboard with Christmas celebrations, in the hopes that I will make a clear point to my small daughter that my own holiday celebrations are much more fun than my...
OK, I know that it is not OK to talk about Christmas now, writes columnist Kate Oktay.
Kate Oktay always imagined she'd love gardening. The reality is somewhat different.
Every few decades, a generation sees the need for change, and society jolts forth,. writes Kate Oktay.
For those of you in the part of the Venn diagram that means (1) Father’s Day is news to you, and (2) you know someone who may have expected you to remember, I’m truly sorry for the terror that is now settling in your heart.