I was recently a passenger in a car travelling from the historic seaside town of Paraty, Brazil, back to São Paulo—a 4.5-hour journey, if all goes well. My New York frien...
How do you stay inspired when so many things around you are falling apart? You might think about your leaky faucet or the peeling paint, your arthritic knees, current eve...
Like David Axon says about starting his new hobby of photography, it just clicked. That’s the sensation you feel when something you’re doing starts to feel pleasurable. C...
If ageing is seen as a gift of time to explore new experiences, the freedom to pursue dreams is blown wide open. It is often when people take the time to engage in creati...
“I thought I was going to be an actor,” says broadcaster Bob McDonald, longtime host of CBC Radio’s science magazine Quirks & Quarks. As a promising college thespian,...
In 2004 I was comfortably entrenched in my retirement life of golf, gardening, and relaxation when a series of events conspired to change my life forever. It was a cold,...
