Breaking news: my grandmother turns 90 this week. 90! That makes her younger than stainless steel but older than nylon and antibiotics.

Facebook is a highlights reel of our lives, writes Dylan Thorne.

I have no idea what it is like to be Maori. Nor do I have any idea what it is like to be Samoan, Asian or anything other than the little Kiwi white boy that I am.

Mount Maunganui beach was the first beach I ever visited in New Zealand, writes Annemarie Quill.

It's getting harder to avoid this bothersome talk about how sugar is killing us, writes Marcel Currin.