• Reducing Holiday Stress

    For many of us, December marks the start of holiday gatherings and festivities, making it feel like “the ...

    For many of us, December marks the start of holiday gatherings and festivities, making it feel like “the most wonderful time of the year.” Some family caregivers, however, may find themselves singing ...

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  • Louise Penny: From the Great Silence to Fame

    Louise Penny makes writing best-selling books look easy. After all, since she published her first mystery ...

    Louise Penny makes writing best-selling books look easy. After all, since she published her first mystery novel, Still Life, 13 years ago, she's banged out an amazing book a year in her Armand Gamache ...

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  • Getting Your Affairs in Order

    My brother-in-law, Kevin, passed away unexpectedly at the relatively young age of 59. He never married an ...

    My brother-in-law, Kevin, passed away unexpectedly at the relatively young age of 59. He never married and did not have any children, and much to our dismay, we discovered after he died that he did no ...

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  • Personal Experience Leads to Board Presidency

    John Thomas knows firsthand what it’s like to navigate the healthcare system and end-of-life care for an ...

    John Thomas knows firsthand what it’s like to navigate the healthcare system and end-of-life care for an aging parent. He was first introduced to the work of the Eldercare Foundation when his father, ...

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  • New Treatments - and Hope - for Mental Illness

    We've come a long way baby when it comes to the subject of mental illness (to use a dated but still relev ...

    We've come a long way baby when it comes to the subject of mental illness (to use a dated but still relevant expression). In 2016, with extraordinary advances in knowledge and treatments regarding all ...

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  • The Price of Freedom

    At 95, former Flying Officer Howard R. Armstrong lives quietly in Victoria, BC. Although he moves slowly ...

    At 95, former Flying Officer Howard R. Armstrong lives quietly in Victoria, BC. Although he moves slowly and has hearing problems, he is an iconic gentleman, one of the few veterans of the Second Worl ...

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  • Passionate Purpose

    Adrianne Dartnall is 64, looks 50, laughs like a 20-year old, and works like a person who is driven by an ...

    Adrianne Dartnall is 64, looks 50, laughs like a 20-year old, and works like a person who is driven by an inspirational mission. She and her partner, Rick Lennert, are equally at home speaking to 400 ...

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  • Old Dame; Young Heart

    In the early sixties, when Hilly was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, she worked as a s ...

    In the early sixties, when Hilly was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, she worked as a stylist for a well-known designer while she designed and sewed clothes for her friends to make a ...

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  • An Artist Never Dies

    When I found out one of my columnists had terminal stomach cancer and would not see the end of this year ...

    When I found out one of my columnists had terminal stomach cancer and would not see the end of this year the news hit me hard! I cried… The universe was playing a provocative game of pile-on, and it s ...

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