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ThrowForward Thursday 113: Rethink and Unlearn Your Life in an Aging World

graeme

Aug 3, 20231 min read

ThrowForward Thursday 113: Rethink and Unlearn Your Life in an Aging World

If you are going to live a LOT longer than you think, it needs to change a lot of your life choices and goals. If you might be married...

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ThrowForward Thursday 112: The Age of Grandparents

graeme

Jul 28, 20231 min read

ThrowForward Thursday 112: The Age of Grandparents

One of the biggest societal implications of people living longer is that the ratio of grandparents to grandchildren is now higher than...

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Throwforward Thursday 85: Giving Lonely People The Choice to Chat

graeme

Jan 5, 20231 min read

Throwforward Thursday 85: Giving Lonely People The Choice to Chat

In 2021, a Dutch supermarket chain, Jumbo, created a special checkout line - it was designed to be slower and give people the opportunity...

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Throwforward Thursday 79: Smart Homes for Seniors

graeme

Nov 24, 20221 min read

Throwforward Thursday 79: Smart Homes for Seniors

Sometime very soon, we need to change our view of what "old age" looks like, and especially change what type of facilities we think older...

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Throwforward Thursday 78: Grandparents of the Future

graeme

Nov 17, 20221 min read

Throwforward Thursday 78: Grandparents of the Future

Imagine a future where grandparents are younger (or at least appear younger because they're healthier and living longer), where they get...

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COVID REFLECTIONS: A hundred days of Lockdown

graeme

Jul 3, 20204 min read

COVID REFLECTIONS: A hundred days of Lockdown

In March, the acclaimed Italian novelist Francesca Melandri wrote a letter to fellow Europeans “from your future”, describing experiences...

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graeme

Jun 1, 20201 min read

LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 67: Mindfulness

I had a webinar conversation with good friend and mindfulness expert, Helen Nicholson this afternoon. It was exactly what I needed. 1...

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graeme

May 25, 20201 min read

LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 60:

I think the people who are struggling the most at the moment are parents of school-going children. There is just so much uncertainty...

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graeme

May 24, 20201 min read

LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 59: Hard choices

We all have difficult choices lying ahead of us in the next few days and weeks. Do I go back to work or not? Do I send the kids to school...

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graeme

May 22, 20201 min read

LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 57: Birthday

It’s my youngest daughter’s birthday tomorrow. She turns 15. She is a teenager with special needs (autism), and has struggled this whole...

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graeme

May 17, 20202 min read

LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 52: World Cure NF Day

Some families have been dealing with the impact of a deadly disease on their lives for many years. I met one such family a number of...

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graeme

May 10, 20201 min read

LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 45: Happy Mother’s Day.

To all the mothers and all those who are mothering: thank you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. To those who’s best efforts don’t...

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graeme

May 9, 20202 min read

LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 44: Rhythms and Rituals

Rhythms and Rituals are necessary

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graeme

May 7, 20201 min read

LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 42: Take photos

In our kitchen at home we have a digital photo frame. 24/7 it scrolls through hundreds of pictures of our family, going back decades. As...

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Lockdown Reflections Day 39: Thank God for Rachel

graeme

May 4, 20203 min read

Lockdown Reflections Day 39: Thank God for Rachel

Rachel Held Evans passed away a year ago today. After a very short illness, this young mother of two small children, and wife to Dan,...

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graeme

Apr 23, 20201 min read

Lockdown Reflections Day 28

Don't fight the Covid-19 riptide. Thanks, Mandy Collins.

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Apr 19, 20201 min read

Lockdown Reflections Day 24

I have been hearing from many parents with school aged children that they are struggling with home schooling. So much so, that I recorded...

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graeme

Apr 17, 20201 min read

Lockdown Reflections Day 22

I am truly grateful that I really like the people I love - especially my immediate family with whom I am in lockdown. I believe that...

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graeme

Apr 13, 20202 min read

Lockdown Reflections Day 18

Make connections with people.

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graeme

Apr 3, 20201 min read

A Day in my Life

A day in my life... not necessarily that novel for me to work from home, be virtual and do webinars. It’s nice that now so many other...

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