A Considerable Age

On a good day, I slay dragons, write essays, and still have time to make dinner. On a bad day, we have to order in.

Retired hospice chaplain and archivist, Susie Kaufman, is the author of Twilight Time: Aging in Amazement. Her focus has always been on lifting up people's stories and seeing them in the context of the larger story that embraces all of us.

Stories of hope and resilience inspire me, and I know that love and togetherness are keys to facing the insurmountable. For this next challenge, I am more inspired than ever. Let's go! We can do hard things!

Olympian, working mom, writer, and mountain-lover. Award-winning children's book author and founder of ZGiRLS. Read my work at linesbylibby.com

Jen Murphy Parker is a writer living in the bay area with her husband, 4 kids and 0 dogs. Her family had a fish that seemed neglect-proof, but it died. Please don't tell her youngest.

Carol is a writer of memoir and short fiction, a collector of eclectic people and experiences. She draws inspiration from her family, her unconventional childhood travelling the world as a "military brat" and her love of travel.

Virginia Fisher Yaffe is intensely grateful to have reached a considerable age. She tries hard to keep looking forward imagining a world where humanity prizes similarities rather than differences.

Somehow, sometime, somewhere, I stopped writing. Detour -marriage, kids, and a fulfilling interior design career. I am thinking that all the decades of words I stored are now busting to get out.

I'm a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto who recently retired from clinical practice - so now I have more time to write.

Ruth Miller is the author of three picture books for children. Her articles and stories have appeared in various publications. A former sexual health educator, she is definitely a woman of considerable age and proud to be one.

Retired magazine editor living in the beautiful Gatineau Hills of Western Quebec. Grateful for finally having the time, perspective and opportunity to write and share stories.

Sari Lubitsch Tudiver is an Ottawa-based cultural anthropologist and women’s health advocate who has worked in academic, government and community settings. She still tries to wear a bracelet on special occasions.

Anna designs and teaches memoir based writing courses.

Retired Canadian diplomat, master gardener, dabbler in art and poetry, now aiming to promote smiles through writing.

PhD Engineer and research manager. My research team developed technologies for replacing petroleum-based products with biomass-based substitutes. To do so I needed to understand oil and gas markets, climate change imperatives, etc.

Retired college professor, art student, pottery beginner and memoir writer, storyteller and grandmother!

Retired diplomat. Mother and Granny. Have lived many places but my favourite places are on the Rideau.

Fascinated with life stories, both in my work as a therapist and in exploring life experiences in some writing.