Joyce Wayne: Retirement Matters

We’re not all destined to be poets. Still, in Governor General’s award-winning author Michael Harris’ book Solitude: a Singular Life in a Crowded World, the writer describes our society as one that embraces sharing like never before. According to Harris, fuelled by our dependence on mobile devices and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive connection.

For the 2019 holiday season, consider letting go. Self-control might be a burden, that for a least one week in December, you can forget about.

It’s not the same as embarking on a European river cruise, but you might be surprised how good random acts of kindness can make you feel.

No one ever suggested that this was dangerous behaviour until Malcolm Gladwell published his recent number one bestselling book Talking to Strangers. In this new book, Gladwell argues that something is very wrong with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know.

Being a member of the Canadian Legion has been a big part of Edward Tramer’s life for sixty-four years.

Most of my life, I’ve been advised to “not sweat the small stuff.” Now that I’m retired –except for writing–and searching for ways to work smarter while making life increasingly pleasant

What does it mean to grow old in Canada? How much has the profile of older Canadians changed in recent years

For the first time in a long time, I’ve been to places where laundry is drying on an outdoor clothesline.

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and the regrets into old age.”
– Margaret Mead

Teaching at a community college is a great job and no one in her right mind should complain about it.