I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman or child…
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Ageism is a bigger problem for women than aging. Our bodies and our sexuality are devalued…
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Winds accompanies me as I row north. Heavy gales occasionally make me fearful on this journey. Luckily, I never have to contend with much more than a gentle breeze…
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My island bedroom has a door that opens directly onto our deck. I sleep with the door wide open almost every night. The other evening my daughter crawled in beside me. Listen, I said to her…
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Your growth is not about some destination far in the future; it’s about the little day to day changes that make you feel a little more joy, the ones that make you feel a little bit lighter, a little bit more of you.
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When you live a life, under any name, that life becomes entwined with others. You leave a trail of potential consequences…
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What if together we reshape, expand, and add on to the idea of the homemaker? A homemaker is anyone whose heart is in their home…
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Wisdom is one of the guiding themes behind Ageless Possibilities. What does that mean? It means I am a seeker of wisdom…
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The word quodophile is not in the dictionary. Yet, along with thousands of others, I am a quodophile, a lifetime collector of quotes…
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I woke to The Sometimes Newsletter, whimsical, random musings from Ella Frances Sanders. She wrote about things that were true for her last October that appear to remain true this October; and things that are more recently true. I curled up in my office to do the same…
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My response to a family emergency, a cancer diagnosis, or a friend suddenly on her own? I am calm and reliable…but the accumulation of little things exhausts me; all I want to do is hibernate until everything is resolved.
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It all started with photographs. Recently I was told that if you hold down a live photo, your iPhone records what happened 1.5 seconds before and after you took the picture. Earlier this week, I suddenly thought, do I have live photos of my mother?
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Belonging is a feeling of connectedness, a sense of being part of something. You feel accepted; there is a synergy with your people. But it is more than that…
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In autumn, the days grow shorter, the light is suffused, and summer’s abundance decays. Faced with this inevitability, what does nature do in autumn?
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As elders, we know - or should know - that we have gifts to offer the young. In many cases, we’ve been there…
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The giddy anticipation I used to feel at the beginning of September has diminished. The month used to feel like a new beginning, a time to plan and dream. And this year?
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Carol, an old friend of my parents, is the marriage commissioner here on the island. She married my oldest daughter and her partner at an intimate ceremony on our property this past Saturday.
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Every day I read stories of women pursuing passions later in life. I am fascinated by the endeavours they embark on, and the motivation behind their pursuits.
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This is love that has loosened its grip. This is love that will always hold on, just more loosely…
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My youngest friend is 51 years old, and my oldest friend is 78. I fall somewhere in the middle, at 63. My longest friendship started in grade three…
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