Personal Stories

This past July, Japan mourned the passing of Dr. Shigeaki Hinohora, a physician and longevity expert who himself lived until the age of 105. He was considered a national treasure and someone who had enormous impact on the lives of Japanese citizens, who live longer than any people on the…

It’s not uncommon for an adult child to be the caregiver for an aging parent. Perhaps it’s a little less common when that caregiver is a son. But perhaps most unusual of all is the son’s decision to document the time he spends with his mother, as her world collapses…

September is the month when we think of school- perhaps our kids or grandkids are returning to the classroom or we think about our own experiences, especially what it was like to go away to college. For Melisande Short-Colomb, who at age 63 finds herself as a college freshman on…

For anyone who’s visited Italy, the experience of tasting authentic Italian cuisine is hard to forget. And it’s often the small, family-run trattorias that served the best meals. Well, lucky for you, writer Vicky Bennison has your back. Because she’s started a website and YouTube channel that introduce you to…

Sometimes you need a deadline to get you moving. For Australian author Cory Taylor, her diagnosis of melanoma in 2005 became the impetus for an extraordinary burst of creative energy over the next decade, including the publication of several award winning books and her last and final work, Dying: A…

It’s not often that we get insight into someone suffering from dementia, particularly someone as articulate as Gerda Saunders. Ms. Saunders, 67, a retired professor from the University of Utah, was given the diagnosis of cerebral microvascular disease, a precursor of dementia, 6 years ago. She began a journal to document her…