Editor’s Note: This issue of Montreal Serai — “Old Age and Youth in a Changing World” — has featured […]
Old Age and Youth in a Changing World
Volume 28 Issue 1

Editorial
We (the editorial board) struggled with the theme for some time – Old Age and Youth in a Changing World. […]
Embrace Life with Joy
SéKAI SéKAI is a Canadian artist for 30 years based in Montreal. His creative development began in Nova Scotia […]
The Construction of Aging
Given the number of years that have elapsed since my birth, I could be considered an “expert” on aging, at […]
Crooked paths to freedom
I was twenty-three and living in London for the first time. I should’ve been fulfilling my father’s dreams for […]
The Watershed
Author note: Written in 1993 for a wellness conference sponsored by The Gazette, Montreal. It was one of ten winning […]
A Montreal Activist Passes On
Dr. Daya Ram Varma August 23, 1929 – March 22, 2015 Dr. Daya Ram Varma, died Sunday March […]
Algebra Tibe and an Interview with Sinbad Richardson
It’s Algebra Tibe! If someone only likes you 6 out of 10 you can tutor them to like you more. […]
Grow Up! Old Man!
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” ― Mark Twain “No, that is the great fallacy: […]
Greece, Debt and Syriza
[Montreal April 6, 2015] Greece – Ελλάς or Hellas – is a place that for many people has […]
The Right to End?
The temperature had finally settled down to a mild -15 degrees in Ottawa when Louise Crandall and I sat […]
Resources ethnoculturelles contre l’abus envers les ainéEs / Respecting Elders: Communities Against Abuse
About RECAA: RECAA, Resources ethnoculturelles contre l’abus envers les ainéEs; in English RECAA translates into — Respecting Elders: […]
Alzheimer’s
“Audrey, you have visitors,” the nurse says to me, looking me in the eye while pointing to the door. A […]
“Don’t tell my husband”
“Don’t tell my husband I touched a white man” — our interpreter, Rajat, speedily translated the language of […]
Links in a chain
First there is nothing, then a sign there might be something comes like a sudden flinch […]
Oh! What a lovely war cry!
For as long as I can remember I have considered middle age to be fifteen years older than I […]
War is a Wrong Kind of Culture
American journalist and author Chris Hedges’s War is a Force that Gives us Meaning places war under three categories: war, […]
Rethinking Aging
Rethinking AGING. Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society. Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., The University of North […]
4 poems
That Which Drowned with Narcissus Where there was once a lake Is barren land now From there can be […]
Poussière de cristal
En ouvrant les yeux, je vois la neige légère accumulée sur le bord de la fenêtre. Je crois […]
Divination
I am tired now. I sit at a table and write cursive. Tables are something taken for granted. […]
Song of the Sybil: fifth lesson & A rented box
Song of the Sybil: fifth lesson The Sybil foretold the end will come. The house deserted. Broken grey […]
Aging
Aging Fine lines grace your face, Your eyes, beautiful Remain so, As you age. Self-conscious, You gently turn your […]
Reflection & The Sky is Full of Shining Stars
REFLECTION the tree that stands near the edge of the pond sees the deep blue abyss into which […]