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Two seeds from the same packet, sown into the same potting mix at the same time, planted into the soil on the same day when they were the...

I've never been so frustrated with cooking. After harvesting a huge basket full of rhubarb, cutting off the leaves and spreading them...

I love tramping (hiking). You put everything you need in a backpack, turn off your phone and walk. In New Zealand, after several hours,...

Searching for a kiwi - even on an island where they are fairly common - felt like an exercise in futility. Reading the log book in the...

Rugby World Cup. New Zealand versus South Africa. Small town New Zealand. Room of Kiwis. During the tense moments in the match where...

I sat listening to the radio one day, cutting fabric to sew into reusable sandwich wraps, and thought to myself, "This is much more fun...

A poorly equipped camping trip recently found us with damp firewood, no kindling, no axe or hatchet to make kindling, no newspaper and...

Isn't it curious, perhaps, or at least a bit odd, that the trees that look like they're about to fall over are the ones that bear the...

It's amazing how natural processes of the earth give us metaphors for life. I was in a redwoods forest and learned about how a large tree...

It's taken me far too long to realise that I am a creator of things. It's simple, really, because we all are. Made in God's image, we...

brenda wang

Kia ora, I'm brenda, a Canadian transplant living in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Among other things, I've written a book, Generous Frugality: an alternative approach to money, which is based on two questions:

1) What if we measured wealth by how much we give away?

2) What if we're frugal so that we can be generous?

Join me on the journey toward a more just, more generous and more simple life.