Cathrin Bradbury

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Recent work

• Cathrin Bradbury: The dinner party is dead. Long live the dinner partyOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 9, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: It’s not just me, navigating the online world is an all-ages crisisOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 1, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: Kendal Avenue is the last stop on my Toronto homes tour and where I take stock of my lifeOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 22, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: Willcocks Street was the home of Calamity Cathrin — living the daily tyranny of all the things that matteredOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 15, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: Just down the street from Margaret Atwood, it’s been a party house for generationsOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 7, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: Houses can absorb a disposition, like sadness. I’ve found people can change a home just by living in itOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 1, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: Living on Jackman Avenue in the ‘80s, I believed everything would go my wayOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 24, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: Toronto makes it easy to seal oneself in. But maybe community can still be found close to homeOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 17, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: The house at 110 Birch Avenue was a turning point in my life, though I did not know it at 23Opinion · Toronto Star · Jul 11, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: I went back to the home I lived in at 17 and talked to the people who live there now. This is what I discoveredOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 3, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: I was familiar with the three-quarter-life real estate gamble. But this way of looking at money was a revelationOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 25, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: I just have to say, I love your outfits!’ The outfit kudo from younger women is a thing this spring and greatly appreciatedOpinion · Toronto Star · May 9, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: Author Anne Enright on coming to terms with the great and flawed writer Alice MunroOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 11, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: Want to stave off dementia? Join a coffee klatchOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 28, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: The longevity movement has gone too far. But at three quarter life, I’m drawn to some of its ideasOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 27, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: At the Golden Globes, Canada suddenly became the sexiest place on EarthOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 16, 2026
• Cathrin Bradbury: This classic board game is no mere distraction. It’s a lesson about fateOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 26, 2025
• Cathrin Bradbury: Aging out of Pap smears is one bonus of getting olderOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 4, 2025
• Cathrin Bradbury: I swapped a backpack for a suitcase and illicit drugs for prescription meds. But repeating a trip I made more than 5 decades ago brought a realization I didn’t expectOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 7, 2025
• Cathrin Bradbury: I swapped a backpack for a rolling suitcase, damp grass for a hotel bed and illicit drugs for prescription meds. But repeating a trip I made more than five decades ago brought one big realization I didn’t expectOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 6, 2025
• Cathrin Bradbury: It’s full of magical princes, the writing’s uninspired, and all my smartest friends were utterly transfixed. In no time, I was tooOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 30, 2025
• Cathrin Bradbury: Snow came to me a year ago as I sat on a park bench in need of a bit of courageOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 10, 2025
• Cathrin Bradbury: Finally, permission to enjoy something I love guilt free — a hot mug of coffee or threeOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 21, 2025
• Cathrin Bradbury: I went to my childhood home and discovered a secret passageway. It didn’t lead where I thought it wouldOpinion · Toronto Star · May 10, 2025
• Cathrin Bradbury: Under no circumstances should you ever have a garage saleOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 12, 2025
• Cathrin Bradbury: My Struggle. Trudging through Toronto’s snowfall in three short actsOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 1, 2025
• Cathrin Bradbury: With Trump back in, Canadian boomers are in a fighting moodOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 19, 2025
• Cathrin Bradbury: I might have imagined the best advice I’ve ever given. May you take it with you into the holidays, anywaysOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 21, 2024
• Cathrin Bradbury: ‘No one is getting out alive:’ We each have a personal apocalypse coming. Here’s my survival listOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 29, 2024
• Cathrin Bradbury: They mock us, malign us and blame us for everything. But my generation is pretty greatOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 18, 2024
• Cathrin Bradbury: At 69 I tried the e-bike and roamed around Toronto. For folks like me, is it the future?Opinion · Toronto Star · Sep 14, 2024
• Cathrin Bradbury: At age 69, I’m finally learning how to drive. But not everyone is on board for me to hit the road — including meOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 29, 2024
• Cathrin Bradbury: I reconnected with my teen sweetheart after decades apart. Turns out we’re not the only ones doing a first-love redoOpinion · Toronto Star · May 25, 2024
• Cathrin Bradbury: After decades apart, school sweethearts are reconnecting and even getting married. I’m part of it. What’s going on?Opinion · Toronto Star · May 24, 2024
• Cathrin Bradbury: You think you working stiffs are busy? Try retiringOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 29, 2024
• You think you working stiffs are busy? Try retiringOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 28, 2024
• Cathrin Bradbury: Can we enjoy an early spring? Or should we stay worried about the implications?Opinion · Toronto Star · Mar 16, 2024
• Can we enjoy an early spring? Or should we stay worried about the implications?Opinion · Toronto Star · Mar 15, 2024
• Cathrin Bradbury: Why Taylor Swift is you, me and everythingOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 8, 2024
• Why Taylor Swift is you, me and everythingOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 7, 2024
• Cathrin Bradbury: In defence of sitting: The much-maligned practice has been pathologized — but here’s what’s missingOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 20, 2024
• In fight against ageism, kindness is not the answerOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 24, 2023
• Adjusting hearing aids and flaunting free naked arms: The Golden Bachelor takes sexy to a new levelOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 20, 2023
• An Ontario woman’s scathing obituary for her dad raises questions: Do we have to be nice to the dead? And what do they owe us?Opinion · Toronto Star · Sep 30, 2023
• Opinion | From tyrants and totalitarians to tender Ted Lasso types: Fatherhood is changing, for the betterOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 17, 2023
• Cathrin Bradbury: From tyrants and totalitarians to tender Ted Lasso types: Fatherhood is changing, for the betterOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 17, 2023
• Opinion | What happens when more and more grandparents are chasing fewer and fewer grandkids?Opinion · Toronto Star · Apr 8, 2023
• Opinion | Why are these scientists teaching seniors how to fall? I took the plunge to find outOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 23, 2023
• Opinion | The John Tory Affair: Is a 37-year age gap a breach too far?Opinion · Toronto Star · Feb 16, 2023
• Cathrin Bradbury: Where did I put my pants? The answer may surprise meOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 20, 2023
• Opinion | Where did I put my pants? The answer may surprise meOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 20, 2023
• Opinion | What I learned in line at Shoppers Drug Mart: beware your ‘destined mood’Opinion · Toronto Star · Dec 17, 2022
• Opinion | Why the final resting place of your parents’ ashes may not have to be so finalOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 25, 2022
• Opinion | My three-quarter-life crisis, or how 65 became the new 25Opinion · Toronto Star · Oct 21, 2022
• Pride and Prejudice and property: If you have a house, do you need a husband? | The StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 20, 2019
• Taking a trip with my adult siblings: ‘Five of us are going in. We don’t know how many will come out’ | The StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 13, 2019
• What I learned about life and courage in Room 1408 of Mount Sinai Hospital | The StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 17, 2019
• Amid the housing crisis, I took in boarders. Next came the pitiless mockery | The StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 2, 2018