The Third Age Chronicles

Latest Release – The Blue-Eyed Boy – Now Available

by Terry Oliver on March 17, 2010

At last after many slippery errors and delays my latest novel in the 3rd Age Trilogy – THE BLUE-EYED BOY is released. It is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble as well as my publisher’s website: booklocker.com.  It is also available as an e-book from booklocker.com, to read on your computer or for those of [...]

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Grey is the new green

July 1, 2010

It’s very cheering to see more and more of the senior generation coming forward and making their voices heard above the white noise of the business as usual clamour. Grandparents have traditionally championed the cause of grandchildren and right now more and more of us are becoming very disturbed at the prospects for their future.
We [...]

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I learn by going where I have to go

June 1, 2010

Living in the 3rd Age raises a lot of challenges which I hadn’t expected to face. I thought it would be a time of reflection and contemplation, reading and philosophising with old friends. But not so. Every day seems to bring fresh demands on my time, attention and energy. The times they are a-changing.
Having grown [...]

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What tea leaves do you read?

May 2, 2010

I had no idea I had so much in common with James Hansen, the chief climate scientist at NASA. It turns out we are both grandfathers and both obsessed with how we can rescue our grandchildren from the plight our society is intent on inflicting on them.
In his new book, STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN, Hansen [...]

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3rd age Dilemmas

March 1, 2010

As I move tentatively into 2010 I become more and more aware of an impending sense of unease. Like most of us, I want to get on with my own life – writing, in all its variegated hues, but voices from the wider world – voices I read and respect – are becoming shriller and [...]

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