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5 days ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare
One minute your child needs a cuddle, the next minute they're leaving home without a backward glance. One minute they’re climbing on your lap wanting a cuddle, the next minute they’re off without a backward glance. Before Mother’s Day, Jane Phare reflects on life after her son moved out and talks to other mums about their experiences. It’s the immaculately tidy bedroom that gets me. So quiet, empty. Empty coat hangers and drawers, empty bed (neatly made), empty floor.
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1 week ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare
Property magnate Sir Robert Jones has died, aged 85. Photo / APNJane Phare looks back on the life and times of Sir Bob Jones, one of New Zealand’s most successful, colourful and controversial businessmen. He didn’t suffer fools, loved boxing, smoked a pipe, liked to buy buildings on corners, disliked mobile phones and couldn’t stand people wearing sunglasses on their forehead.
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2 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare |Anne Gibson
Next-generation wealth: Many of the adult children from New Zealand’s wealthiest families are following their parents’ footsteps, while some have branched out and are running their own businesses. Image / NZMEThey grow up enveloped in wealth, raised by parents tagged with labels like rich lister, multi-millionaire or self-made entrepreneur. Jane Phare and Anne Gibson look at New Zealand’s ‘heir apparent’ generation to find out what they’ve done with their lives and careers.
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2 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare
Chris Watson (left), aged 15, and DJ Nev Chamberlain (centre) chat to Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr before The Beatles' concert in the Wellington Town Hall in 1964. It was a day in June 1964 that young Chris Watson, a 15-year-old from Timaru, would never forget. A plane ride to Wellington, two nights in a hotel, attending The Beatles concert and – best of all – meeting the fab four.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Jane Phare
Wellington rapists jailed for group sex attack on woman affected by drugs and alcoholWARNING: This story contains details of sexual offending A night out for a woman ended with her being raped by three men as she drifted in and out of …
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2 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare
Jenny-May Clarkson wonders where the confident girl determined to become a Silver Fern went. Photo / Dean Purcell She’s represented New Zealand in two sports, served as a police officer and worked in television for the past 20 years. Now TVNZ’s Breakfast host Jenny-May Clarkson has written her autobiography Full Circle. She talks to Jane Phare about love, loss and self-doubt.
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4 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare
Edwards, 52, has left his sky-blue Porsche 296 at the farm gate, hitching a ride up to the cabin in a 4WD. A 700m road will eventually connect to the clubhouse but that’ll be about it in terms of tar seal. From up at the club’s restaurant and bar, golfers will get a spectacular 360-degree view: the links golf course stretching out below and the wild west coast surf beach beyond. In the distance lurks the haunting outline of Kāpiti Island.
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1 month ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare
Personal finance expert Martin Hawes has written his 24th book, Retirement Ready, and is starting to ease back on his workload to allow him more time for outdoor pursuits like open-water swimming. Photo / George Heard Finance guru and author Martin Hawes has written a “warts and all” book on how to plan for a comfortable retirement.
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1 month ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare
The ancient Hindu-Buddhist temple of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Jane Phare reflects on the highlights of a 16-day trip to Cambodia and Vietnam, including eight days drifting down the Mekong River on a luxury Viking river cruiserIf there was one attraction on everyone’s bucket list on our Viking tour it was Cambodia’s ancient Hindu-Buddhist temple complex of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap.
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1 month ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare
One of Skyline's offshore luge sites in Tongyeong, South Korea. What started as a single gondola on Queenstown Hill in 1967 has expanded to a multimillion-dollar business in seven countries, with more to come. Jane Phare reports. Danny Luke remembers the thrill of sitting in a luge cart being towed up Queenstown Hill behind his grandfather’s car. It was the mid-1980s and Luke, about 6 at the time, would tear down the hill with his brothers to test the brakes and steering systems of the cart.
