Zoomer Magazine

LIFE … EMPOWERED For more than a decade, Zoomer magazine has celebrated perspectives on empowered aging. We offer a variety of solutions and strategies to keep you energetic and engaged. Our content is a targeted blend of the issues and concerns, the joys and triumphs, of this unique stage of your life.

Zoomer Magazine • VOLUME 39, NUMBER 6

15 Years Later

The Ups & Downs in the Journey

Zoomer Nation • As time keeps on slipping into the future, Marni Jackson revisits her prognostications from our inaugural issue and makes a few more guesses on what the next 15 years will bring

A Classical Act

From Dollywood to Dollyrock

A Crowning Finale

Ghosts in the Machine • Everything old is new again on TV

Food, Fashion & Home

Time Is Ticking • How to make the most of your minutes

Wellness Advice for Body, Mind & Spirit

The Journey Was The Destination

The Audacity of Optimism • An unexpected diagnosis left me second-guessing things about myself I believed to be true

Democratic Deficit • Has the rise of older politicians forced millennials to the sidelines?

The Best and the Worst of Times • Fifteen years on, the 2008 financial crisis offers up valuable lessons on investing for today and tomorrow

Showtime

Director’s Cut • In Killers of the Flower Moon, a story about an Indigenous nation betrayed by a murderous predator and complicit society, Martin Scorsese is at the top of his game, and still trying to reconcile the spiritual and the profane

Rear View Mirror • As American Graffiti turns 50, BRIAN D. JOHNSON explains how George Lucas’ classic film paved the way for blockbusters like Star Wars and marked a turning point in Hollywood moviemaking

Fall Retrospective • More nostalgia is coming to a theatre near you

Flex • With 1.8 million followers on her @trainwithjoan Instagram account, this 77-year-old “fitfluencer” is the poster girl for late-in-life transformation

Women Talking • Flipping the script on aging gracefully

Absolutely Fabulous • In Salah Bachir’s celebrity-filled memoir, First to Leave the Party, the true star is a man with a heart of gold and jewels to match.

The Maestro & His Muse • A monograph of Steven Meisel’s photographs of Linda Evangelista adds a new chapter to the Canadian supermodel’s renaissance

The Perfect Formula • Bonnie Garmus talks about her blockbuster novel, Lessons in Chemistry, the TV series and why casting the dog was key

Track Record • New books by sprinters Donovan Bailey and Andre De Grasse are pure gold

Remembering the Lost Boys • Canadian actor R.H. Thomson’s By the Ghost Light eloquently underscores his mission to name every soldier ever killed in the Great War

Monkman’s Moment • Reframing Colonial History Through Humour, Sexiness and Love

The Mapped Travel Awards • Your passport to u unexpected experiences curated for you and by you

Dinner on the Edge of the World • FORAGE, FISH, FEAST: A GOURMAND ADVENTURE

An Adventure Shared

The View From Here

Cultural Desert • For a few days a year, the Coachella music festival transforms Palm Springs into one of the coolest places on earth. Antonia Whyatt shows you how to have fun in the sandbox at any age

Travel by the Book • On a long-awaited trip to Morocco, the written word offers a new perspective on the people and the culture

Far & Wide

A Modern Thanksgiving • To mark our 15th anniversary at Zoomer, we’re celebrating the moment by giving thanks in a maximalist way. Here are some glam, easy-to-execute new ideas to create a feast for the senses

Moses’ Last Word/First Word