John Bluck

We’re a funny country. Up until Christmas we move at a frantic pace, then suddenly shut down and don’t wake up properly till Waitangi Day....

How do you know when to give up? It’s a question that haunts the world of retirees. The answers are lopsided by media gurus chanting...

The most powerful messages are the unspoken ones. The strictest protocols are the unwritten ones. But they’re being changed online before our eyes and we...

What’s the biggest give away to who’s under or over 70? You can’t tell by looking anymore. That 80-year-old striding out ahead of you has...

Are older people more polite than younger ones? Grumpier maybe, though we’d like to think more civil. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it....

If good things take time, I’ve never waited long enough to find out. Till now. Getting older is an exercise in time adjustment. It seems...

Just as you get to a stage of life when you think you know a thing or two, along comes an avalanche of new information...

What’s the best thing about retirement? Even more than a Gold Card, or free public transport (though that’s hard to find where I live in...

For highly rated but recently retired Auckland columnist Steve Braunias, the Gold Card is “the bouncer at the doorway of a dark, quiet and possibly...

In this issue, we welcome a new columnist to Mahurangi Matters who is going to write about the pleasures and perils of aging. John Bluck...