September/October 2024
Let’s Redefine ‘Retirement’
It must be more than just leisure and fun, or else we’ll slide downhill
Given my desire to avoid retirement, I was lucky that after I ended my 50-year tenure with the sociology department at the University of Washington, I was able to continue to be employed as a relationship expert on Married at First Sight, a reality television show on the Lifetime television network. It cushioned my transition
Holding Onto The Moments: Jefferson Ketchel
The challenges and heartbreak about caring for someone with Alzheimer’s
She started getting angrier because I think she felt lost. She had always been an independent person. I think she felt that we were infringing on her independence... This is one of a series of three stories profiling family caregivers.
Holding Onto The Moments: Leah White
The challenges and heartbreak about caring for someone with Alzheimer's
(My husband and I) decided to get married in between him finishing his undergrad and starting his master’s program. That’s when I started noticing gaps in my mom’s memory... This is one of a series of three stories profiling family caregivers.
Having a Bad Spell
My alphabetic acrobatics are slipping
I’ve always taken an inordinate amount of pride in my spelling. I not only remember winning the junior-high spelling bee at my small Catholic school, but I clearly recall walking down to the Herald & News in Klamath Falls, Ore., to have my picture taken for the accompanying blurb...
The Wonderpreneur
Aegis founder Dwayne Clark is an author, philanthropist, filmmaker, and a highly successful business executive
Dwayne Clark was standing on a crate washing dishes at the tender age of 7 in an airport restaurant where his Mother, Colleen, was a cook. He grew up without a father. He was, he says, “at the bottom rung of the economic cycle.” The biggest influences in his life were all women: his grandmother,
Second Acts: Anne Bremner
The Seattle mag interview
Anne Bremner, who holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a law degree from Seattle University School of Law, began her career as a prosecuting attorney with the criminal division of the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, specializing in sex crimes...
