Cara Hoffman on Women and War; Documentary - Soccer Stars and Seniors; Documentary - How Does Your Engine Run; Scott Simon on Grief; Sunday School - How to Think Like Sherlock; Self-care for the Caregiver; Colm Feore on King Lear

This week on The Sunday Edition for July 6, 2014

Cara Hoffman (at :31)

It's a story often told in books and on film...returning from war and struggling to cope with PTSD and life as it once was; but it's seldom told from the perspective of a female soldier. In her new novel Be Safe, I Love You, Cara Hoffman's protagonist is a woman who confronts the horrors of war both on and off the battlefield.

Documentary - Soccer & Seniors (at 24:21)

When two members of the Canadian women's soccer team moved into a retirement residence in Maryland, they received free accommodation, but they gave much more. David Gutnick's documentary on the difference these elite athletes made to the seniors and the staff.

Documentary - How Does Your Engine Run? (at 42:38)

Karin Wells takes us into the public school classrooms of Surrey B.C., where instead of medication, teachers are taking advantage of new developments in neuroscience and a philosophy of education called "self-regulation".

Scott Simon (at 1:10:42)

National Public Radio host Scott Simon watched his mother's health deteriorate in a Chicago hospital and tweeted the days and hours of her dying. Millions around the world responded. A reprise of his conversation with Michael.

Sunday School - How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (at 1:33:28)

You too can learn to think like the famous denizen of 221-B Baker Street. Michael's Sunday School teacher was Maria Konnikova, author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes.

Essay - Self-care for the Caregiver (at 1:50:15)

It's easy to talk about the importance of caring for the caregiver, not so easy to do. An essay by Sheila Bazlaw of Ottawa, on how she found a way to care for her spouse and herself too.

Colm Feore on Lear (at 1:59:07)

The marquee production at this year's Stratford Festival is King Lear, with one of this country's most esteemed actors in the lead role. Colm Feore tells Michael about the perils of portraying Shakespeare's "despised old man".