By Steve Varney I have always understood retirement would be a gift for having ‘lasted’ that long working, I deserved to have a rest and enjoy my free time. Having just hit that age of retirement at...

By Simone Varney To write “Not Yet a Human” on your clearly pregnant, basketball sized belly is interesting. I’m a woman who’s been denied the privilege of bearing a child, yet what I’ve observed of...

On the top of the New Zealand coat of arms there is a crown. On the top of that crown there is a cross. This symbolises that even the monarch is subject to God. That the State is under God has been...

In days gone, societies used to banish lepers forbidding them to mix with normal society. They were to identify themselves and cry ‘unclean, unclean’ to warn people around them. Lepers could not go...