John Bluck

Some of my best friends live in retirement villages and I’m happy for them. They don’t seem to be laughing a lot or drinking white...

In the midst of all the worldwide furore over immigration, it helps to have the long memory that older people enjoy. Back in the 1950’s...

Imagine an All Black winger scoring a spectacular try then running up and down the sideline, waggling his ears, arms stretched out to embrace the...

Welcome to the election season. As the temperatures drop the rhetoric heats up.Not that hardly any of us, politicians or not, had the chance to...

I grew up thinking agency was a place where you dropped off your dry cleaning. It’s much more than that. It’s a game changer word...

You have to be really old to remember the Platters 1955 hit “Oh yes, I’m the Great Pretender, pretending that I’m doing well.” It’s a...

There’s nothing new about spotting fakes. We’ve been doing it forever. Artificial flowers can fool you for a while, but there’s nothing like the scent...

With so many of us living so much longer, New Zealand is struggling to cope. The eligibility age for superannuation is a favourite election year...

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...