A generation of ideas

The Mayor of Red Deer read my recent column on volunteering and invited me to his office at City Hall for morning coffee, which is a very nice gesture for a new columnist to receive! He wanted to meet me, to exchange ideas about reaching the age demographic we are...

Being a senior is subjective

I had a meeting in a town an hour away last week and while I was circling the small Main Street looking for parking, I saw a sign on a building that read: Seniors (45+) Activity Centre. When did 45 year-old people become seniors? Didn’t that used to be middle age?...

Reshaping the meaning of retirement

‘Can you spot the ashtray under the rotary phone I’m answering in 1984? But even then I wasn’t taking work too seriously.’ A recent ‘future retiree survey’ out of Ontario shows that over 35 per cent of more than 1400 respondents have either...

Let the right message sink in

I was cleaning my kitchen the other night when a slogan from the bottle of dishwashing liquid caught my eye. ‘Trusted for over 100 years’, it stated. I stood looking at that for a long time. Do you trust the soap you wash dishes with? Do you have to? Like, have you...