We humans are social creatures, and so we need to have a good quality of life filled with purpose and meaning. We need this no matter what life brings throughout the aging process. So how do we find purpose and meaning in the later stages...
We had delays in housebuilding this winter, due to high winds and snow storms. I had to remind myself that this too shall pass, and that change is inevitable. The good news is that we now have a solid roof that has built-in wind resistance....
I’ve known for a long time that resiliency – the capacity to cope with whatever life throws at us – depends on personal characteristics and life circumstances. I am realizing now that resiliency helps a lot during construction of a house! Here are three examples. From...
Guest Blog by Heather McNally * I am sure you want to keep your brain active and your memory sharp for as long as possible. It is exciting to realize there is scientific evidence that YOU CAN change your brain. You are not stuck with the...
I recently had the pleasure of sharing some work with my husband, although it could have easily created conflict. As part of building a house to see us into very old age, we had a wide-open, crude channel inside the foundation for the plumber to eventually...
The footing for our new house was very well done, and the foundation frost wall went in without a hitch. It was my husband whose old soccer injury to his knee flared up that knocked him off his own footing and turned me into a...
Re: Nova Scotia's recent budget: I can live with the tiny increase in health care, provided we change to a client-centred system to better meet health needs across the population. Client-centred example I think we need to consider the shift to a client-centred system, carried out by...
We were so excited when the excavation fellows arrived to start our new house – with strict instructions to save the topsoil. Moving shrubs The first thing they did for us was move five shrubs – plants that were too big for my husband and me to...
I thought we were prepared about choosing sub-contractors to build our new house. We knew to ask around for recommendations, especially from suppliers of materials. We knew to get several quotes, and what to look for in quotes. What we didn’t know was how much...
We had a dream of building our new house in such a way that we could turn the second floor into a second unit. At some point in the future, it might serve as a rentable unit in case we needed income, or into a...
