march 2023 – INSPIRED

Thrive Beyond 55 – March

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Thrive Beyond 55 – March

As I write this month’s column, I’m busy sorting out hundreds of details for our upcoming 55+ Lifestyle S ...

As I write this month’s column, I’m busy sorting out hundreds of details for our upcoming 55+ Lifestyle Show on March 21st in Victoria. My amazing staff and I have organized over 20 of these events. M ...

February 27, 2023
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Reykjavík, Iceland: My Kind of Town

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Reykjavík, Iceland: My Kind of Town

I had my first Icelandic ‘What A Country’ moment even before touching down in Iceland. The air sickness b ...

I had my first Icelandic ‘What A Country’ moment even before touching down in Iceland. The air sickness bag on Icelandair, instead of a dry, boring sanitary notification, introduced the Icelandic word ...

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Buenos Aires: In Quest of the Blind Pig

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Buenos Aires: In Quest of the Blind Pig

This beguiling and intoxicating city creates an atmosphere of excitement combined with a little mystery, ...

This beguiling and intoxicating city creates an atmosphere of excitement combined with a little mystery, due to its multiple layers of history. Buenos Aires, Argentina stands waiting to be explored an ...

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Toni Blodgett: Keeping Jazz Alive

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Toni Blodgett: Keeping Jazz Alive

Jazz has been America’s cultural gift to the world for a little over 100 years. The improvisational art c ...

Jazz has been America’s cultural gift to the world for a little over 100 years. The improvisational art captured on record for a century is Victoria-based traditional jazz pianist Toni Blodgett’s insp ...

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A Recipe For Living Your Best Life

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A Recipe For Living Your Best Life

Mary Spilsbury Ross was born with the creative gene starting at an early age reciting poetry, dancing, ma ...

Mary Spilsbury Ross was born with the creative gene starting at an early age reciting poetry, dancing, making up plays, and singing with her sisters. She has had an exciting life, onstage and off and ...

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Dealing with Aggressive Dogs

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Dealing with Aggressive Dogs

Exercising outdoors is a treat, but you need to be aware of potential threats. While you may encounter ag ...

Exercising outdoors is a treat, but you need to be aware of potential threats. While you may encounter aggressive dogs when you’re outdoors, note that they aren’t necessarily vicious. It’s inaccurate ...

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Pursue Your Passion

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Pursue Your Passion

Barry Casson is, indisputably, a man who gets the most out of life. At various points, he has toured abro ...

Barry Casson is, indisputably, a man who gets the most out of life. At various points, he has toured abroad as a musician with the likes of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, published thousands of news phot ...

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How We Met

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How We Met

JUNE & JOHN June and John enjoy dancing, cheek-to-cheek, as if they’ve been doing it for the past 50 ...

JUNE & JOHN June and John enjoy dancing, cheek-to-cheek, as if they’ve been doing it for the past 50 years. But they only got together five years ago, when she was 80 and he was 82. John, widowed ...

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Living on Purpose

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Living on Purpose

BEING BOLD REVISITED People talked to me about their bold moves after I wrote a column about being bold i ...

BEING BOLD REVISITED People talked to me about their bold moves after I wrote a column about being bold in the May 2022 issue of INSPIRED magazine. Richard Wong sent me an email and suggested that he ...

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