A generation of ideas

by | May 23, 2023 | Career, Retirement, Writing

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

by | May 16, 2023 | Career, Lifestyle, Retirement, Wellness

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

by | May 9, 2023 | Career, 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

by | May 2, 2023 | Career, Lifestyle, Retirement, Wellness

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...