The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing, writes Deborah Hill Cone. To that end, I hope some journalist has explained to Mike Hosking that Federated Farmers and Fonterra are not "experts",

Young women who are still discovering who they are, are feeling obliged to go along with this soul-destroying meat market, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

There are few more uncomfortable sensations than feeling you are going to throw up while becoming aware nothing is offering itself up as a discreet nausea vessel.

There is just too much to keep up with these days, what with coconut oil, Apple watches and lifestyle shaming, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

A while ago my therapist asked me to sit in a different chair and talk out loud in the voice in my head, writes Deborah Hill Cone. That was easy: "You're so hopeless. You're so needy. You're pathetic."

I am writing this in the lobby bar of the Chateau Marmont, writes Deborah Hill Cone; This is quite a legendary place. Sofia Coppola made a film about it. John Belushi died of a drug overdose here.

Last week I got a knock on the door. It was a 74-year-old retired truck driver who was checking that I was all right as my column hadn't appeared for two week, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Even happy memories are painful, writes Deborah Hill Cone. They trap you in a past you may simultaneously venerate and abhor. Instead, try to distract yourself, in any way you can.

Deborah Hill Cone writes: In a chaotic world, bullies tell us what to think, what to do, and what we are doing wrong. This can be comforting if you feel unsure who you are.

The threat of social rejection to be the most widespread and potent form of stress for human beings. Deborah Hill Cone writes of trying to overcome this kind of killer shame.

I'm a little odd as I have always loved to be around old people, writes Deborah Hill Cone. As a child I found other children terrifying.

A highly respected public relations person told me this week news is just a humdrum commodity like biscuits, writes Deborah Hill Cone, and that is why MediaWorks shouldn't baulk too much if it has to shut down current affairs programme Campbell Live.

There seems to be far too much about the computers themselves and far too little about creating cool stuff or learning cool stuff in schools, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

These big-hitters from self-help books are sure to score as the nation comes off a cricket high.

The feminist mantra of being able to have a shag without engaging your heart doesn’t sit right with columnist Deborah Hill Cone.

The broadcaster Alison Mau wrote a piece at the weekend about what she called "The curse of casual sexism".

Deborah Hill Cone writes: I notice there is a disturbing polarity in our public discourse: Isis or Kim Kardashian? Putin or The Bachelor? Are things always this binary?

Life is full of setbacks and failures all on its own; it is unnecessary to manufacture extra pratfalls, writes Deborah Hill Cone. It's not as simple as a Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest attitude would suggest.

The long school holidays are coming to an end (hashtag huzzah). They have been, er, fun. Did you know Ironhide is an Autobot who has a grenade launcher and a plasma gun?

Deborah hill Cone writes: As a teenager my life was one long anthropological study of the "smart set" to which I didn't belong.

Zealots are dangerous because there is a deadness in their soul. To be human is to grapple with doubt, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Why does ageing hold such special horror for me? Because it confronts us with the truth: we are all going to die.

The universe loves a symbolic gesture. It doesn't have to be grand or spectacular, just meaningful. Personally, at New Year I dig buying new stationery...

Not drinking is the easy part. The hard part is dealing with people’s reactions to your alcohol-free lifestyle, Deborah Hill Cone writes.

Deborah Hill Cone scavenged from the filter of life and presents us with 30 things she learned in 2014.

I liked to drink. I liked to be drunk. "You self-medicate," my psychiatrist said, kindly, writes Deborah Hill Cone. Strangely, I even liked hangovers.

Ingredients needed for the exorcism: a lucky stone, fire, wine, candles, fairy dust, special treats, music.

Finding a grand unifying pattern of villains and victims may help your brain feel safe in an unpredictable world: but it doesn't make it true, writes Deborah Hill Cone. We are all flawed, complex human beings.

Young bourgeois people obsessed with getting on the property ladder at a time when they should be experimenting and taking risks and working out who they are, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Deborah Hill Cone writes: What is happening to our enlightened culture when even so-called intellectuals are preoccupied with pursuing Kardashian-level grooming?