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“No good deed goes unpunished.” Oscar Wilde I have to admit I have often wondered what inspired someone to come up with today’s quote, but I actually had no idea who said it. I then discovered, to my surprise, that it is frequently attributed to Osca...

“I learn by going where I have to go.” The Waking by Theodore Roethke As I sit in silence, I say to you this – there is no backwards. Backwards is but an illusion, a game we play in the mind – some might say to amuse ourselves; others might say to t...

Today I have an interesting question for you – can self-belief ever be “selfless”?

“I don’t think I had a nap today, but I’m not sure – I may have slept through part of it.” Anonymous Today’s article was inspired by the passing remark above that one of my older friends made to me this past week. Once we finally managed to stop gigg...

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot In case you are still hesitating to come outside, winter is over, the longtails are back and it’s time to take a long slow deep breath of fresh air an...

“I used to think time was a thief. But he gives before he takes. Time is a gift. Every minute. Every second.” Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll It’s strange how we constantly wrestle with the concept of time – imaging that we have succee...

This week at Olderhood we had the unusual experience of being contacted by a malfunctioning e-mail bot. I say malfunctioning because, as best we can tell, the string of messages that we received were not dispatched by a human and certainly were not ...

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change.” Frequently attributed to Albert Einstein Continuing last week’s analysis of fishy quotes, let’s take a look at the well-known one above which is f...

Has the technology of the moment stolen your focus? That is the question being posed by bestselling author Johann Hari in his new book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again. The idea that the human attention span is ...

I remember a friend from Sweden telling me that Swedish is a very difficult language for non-native speakers to learn because a correct understanding of the language depends not so much on knowing the vocabulary as it does on understanding how to int...