You’ve probably heard that good dancers are good in bed. While I’m neither going to confirm nor deny this from personal experience,  I will say that learning to dance tango with your partner is definitely relationship building. My husband and I took up Argentine Tango four years ago, fulfilling a long-time desire of mine to take … More Two to Tango

Flying back from a visit last week to Nova Scotia where my husband and I raised our family, I got very confused about using the word ‘home’.  We were returning ‘home’ to Thunder Bay, Ontario where we’ve been for seven years.  Yet Nova Scotia is where we had lived for the previous 20 years in … More Redefining Home

Margaret Atwood paints both an amusing and disturbing vision of a future where the young rise up against the old in a story called “Torching the Dusties”, included in her Stone Mattress collection. They torch retirement/nursing homes, including the pricey one at the centre of the story where the residents presumably are paying their own way. … More The Longevity Game