Love and Dementia — and Robots
From Linda Priestley, Editor-in-Chief Over the coming years, Canada’s population will be getting older, and the number of people—our…
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Retirement: A Time for Rebirth
From Linda Priestley, Editor-in-Chief You may or may not be counting the days, but you’ve almost certainly pondered your retirement. Most people start the countdown somewhere around the age of 50, carefully planning life after many years of commute/work/sleep/repeat.…
Being Wrong Can Be Right
From Linda Priestley, Editor-in-Chief Made a mistake recently? Guess what? It’s okay. Better yet, being wrong can put you...in…
Learning to Embrace Change
From Linda Priestley, Editor-in-Chief Change. It’s an ordinary word—but one that can sometimes (often) set nerves jangling. Faced with…
Hands Across the Generations
From Linda Priestley, Editor-in-Chief We’ve often mentioned in these pages the importance of intergenerational bonds: without the experience of…
Gratitude Is Contagious
From Linda Priestley, Editor-in-Chief Every year, a group of friends gets together to celebrate their friendship (43 years as…
Hi! Bonjour! ¡Buenos Dias! Tanisi!
From Linda Priestley, Editor-in-Chief Do you speak French, Spanish, or Cree? Intrigued by how learning a language affects the…
Get Some Air (Doctor’s Orders)
From Linda Priestley, Editor-in-Chief Ten years ago, civil servants in Melbourne, Australia, invited citizens to alert them to any…
Beacons of Hope
From Linda Priestley, Editor-in-Chief In case you’ve been feeling a little down lately, here’s an antidote for gloom: think…
The Gift of a Greeting
From Linda Priestley, Editor-in-Chief Just before the holidays, as we were putting together the issue you have in your…