Until recently, the living options for those in the “third third” of life were limited: living alone, moving in with your kids, or going to a traditional retirement community. But now, people across the country are re-imagining their lives in retirement. They are coming up with a remarkable number of alternatives. Among them: Housing cooperatives, …more

My motivation for writing, producing and narrating a documentary on the history of the United States of America was simple. In a survey of graduates from a high school (I can’t remember which one), over 50% of those interviewed believed during World War II, America & Germany were allies against Russia. They missed several other …more

If someone were to ask how we would like to see ourselves in the later years of our lives, most of us would respond: independent, healthy, and active. This is not such a far-fetched dream as had been for our parents, and even they achieved those ambitions from time to time. The life expectancy today …more

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It was just a normal day, like any other day. I was off running some errands on a busy summer afternoon. Nothing special. I had just parked my car in the parking lot of a strip mall and was walking down the sidewalk to a Walgreen’s to pick some prescriptions. That’s when I saw him. …more

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Many expats living in Spain fail to recognise the importance of family and community to the Spanish people. Unlike many Northern European countries, where the sick and elderly are shipped off to hospitals, care homes and hospices, it is still the culture in many Mediterranean countries that families generally take care of their own. I …more

In the early 1960’s, when I was seven, my mother took me to a bar every Saturday morning. We would walk to the back of the bar toward the narrow, dimly lit stairway leading down to the basement. That’s where I met a handful of other kids waiting for the Saturday morning Polish language class. …more

As a young teenager growing up in England in the 1970’s, America, for me, meant three things: Movie stars, pancakes with maple syrup and metal mailboxes with little red flags. Maybe it was from watching all those American shows or maybe from reading too many noir detective thrillers, which I devoured. Or perhaps I had …more

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Six years ago, when my first grandson arrived, miracles began to happen. The first miracle, of course, was him– a perfect, healthy, brown-eyed bundle of joy.  Another miracle was the way his birth transformed our entire family, affording us all new hope after suffering trauma in the past, and more recently, loss of extended family …more