A feeling of friendship and companionship in the workplace makes a big difference.
After five years away, Lisa Scott's returning to her home town Dunedin.
I’m cleaning the toilet an awful lot. There isn’t a weed in the garden and the bed is always made, writes Lisa Scott.
Time to embrace my whakapapa - however grey and dull and prone to colonising it might be, writes Lisa Scott.
Well, I really picked the worst time to have a rip-snortingly good Christmas holiday, writes Lisa Scott.
New Zealand has a chronic shortage of sperm donors, causing unnecessary heartache for couples longing to have a child, writes Lisa Scott.
After footage emerged of surfers stoning a foil board that washed up on Fort Point Beach, San Francisco, it’s apparent surfers don’t like change, writes Lisa Scott.
Should the partner of a creative person be entitled to a share of their creative copyright, asks Lisa Scott.
The people who need housing the most never seem to be the ones who benefit from rural land being opened up for development, writes Lisa Scott.
The difference between this lockdown and the last though is that Lisa Scott has company.
Lisa Scott takes a knee to tie a shoelace at her peril, as the Casanova of Wanaka sees proposals everywhere.
The Casanova of Wanaka and I are a great match. But there’s trouble at t’mill when the sun goes down, writes Lisa Scott.
A toxic relationship is like paraquat: it gets into the waterways of your life and mutates all the happy little fish, writes Lisa Scott.
Do not go gentle into that brain fog; rage, rage against the dying of your hippocampus, writes Lisa Scott.
It’s only natural that when you get together with someone there is a certain merging of your interests and hobbies, writes Lisa Scott.
Whether it’s empty places at the table, family members stuck on the other side of the world, the constant feeling of not-here-ness is like the itch of a missing limb, writes Lisa Scott.
Don’t know about you, but at the start of 2020 I had no idea of the random skills I’d have assembled by the end of it. Some people took up baking, gardening ... Those people are not me.
Emotionally abusive relationships are no less traumatic and difficult to leave, writes Lisa Scott.
Lisa Scott gets to grips with a bustle and enjoys all things Victorian.
Dating a nice guy is scary as when you’re used to drama lama bad boys, writes Lisa Scott.