Jonathan Swift, who would in later life suffer from dementia, was keen on the importance of keeping a “commonplace book” in which a person might record insights, overheard bits, observations, excerpts ...

Income, status, meaning – for most people they're merged. You need status for income and you try to gain both through work that means something to you. Aging often affords more time for meaning ...

Wayne MacPhail is a journalist living in Hamilton. In 1584, the then-12-year-old English poet John Donne was studying at the University of Oxford along with his younger brother, Henry. This was when ...