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“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...

From her base in London, England, Jessica Burns started a podcast about things that weren’t usually publicly discussed. Child sex abuse, suicide, being a single mother – nothing was taboo. Her hope was that I Can Relate. With Jessica Burns, would all...

Running blindly through the night, an unmarked and unprotected 500-foot drop somewhere near his right side, Jason Williams questioned whether he was in over his head. His feet were covered in blisters, his head had “a cartoon bump”; he was dehydrated...

A 50-year-old with a long history of health problems is asking for help in paying off more than $40,000 in medical expenses. Carmen Fernandes, who is unemployed and on financial assistance and receives additional help because of a disability, was sad...

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 ...

At 25, Tiffany Paynter discovered yoga. For years she’d written it off as something done by privileged people with time on their hands, but friends suggested it might help her battle with depression. The breath control, the meditation ….it changed he...

How to keep the romance going in marriage? How to keep the fire of love and passion burning for many years? Every couple has their own secrets and recipes. Bill and I found our own: we love to surprise each other. This Valentine’s Day started out for...

“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...

Competition is an essential element within the sporting world. It’s generally considered a positive thing however competition between individuals can sometimes pan out in a negative way. For some reason, many may get jealous when others are successfu...

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 ...