Jules Older

Aug 29, 2024 | discover.silversea.com | Jules Older

The city of Auckland is almost surrounded by water. It’s a city of islands and a place from which many residents commute to work by ferry. Indeed, some of Auckland’s most delightful destinations are accessible only by water. Among our favorites: the seaside village of Devonport, which you can reach by car if you don’t mind sitting in traffic; Waiheke Island and Tiritiri Matangi Islands. Welcome aboard.

Aug 3, 2024 | authormagazine.org | Jules Older

As a writer living in a small town, you sometimes feel you don't have much of a contribution to make to community life. No, not as a person—every resident has that opportunity—as a writer. If you were a painter, you could paint the firehouse. If you were a plumber, you could fix the old furnace in the school. But what’s a writer to do? For many years, I was a writer in a small town; actually, in a poor and tiny northern Vermont village. A calamity there made me think about the role of the write.

Jun 10, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Jules Older

Even To Kill a Mockingbird’s Atticus Finch can’t escape the wrath of the “white saviour” brigade. Photo / Getty Images Opinion: Don’t let that headline fool you – I bat left. I don’t believe Donald Trump is the real American president; I do believe abortion is a woman’s right; I’m sure the Covid vaccine doesn’t rot your brain and I know that climate change is real and alarming. I bat left but I can switch-hit. When my team comes up with a terrible idea, I say so.

Mar 24, 2024 | vermontbiz.com | Jules Older

by Jules Older, Vermont Business Magazine Apple is being sued by the United States Justice Department along with 16 American states, including Vermont, and the District of Columbia. They charge that Apple has violated American antitrust laws by illegally keeping customers reliant on their iPhones and are thus, less likely to switch to a competing phone. The suit argues that Apple’s practices hurt both consumers and the smaller companies that compete with it.

Nov 18, 2023 | thespinoff.co.nz | Jules Older

Societyabout 12 hours agoIt sounds like a scam, but it’s not. There’s an easy way New Zealand can save millions of litres of clean, fresh water without digging up pipes, messing with lakes or spending an extra dollar of taxpayer money. Rather than drain our lakes, replace our pipes (though, Wellington, c’mon), hire a cadre of pricy consultants, I suggest simply redesigning one tiny part of our toilets. In North America, that part is called the handle. Here, it’s a “dual flush cistern button”.