With the launch of the fourth year of Alzheimer's Care Quarterly we are all especially privileged to be able to share in the insights and advice of Marilyn T., the coeditor of this issue. Marilyn has been living with the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease since 1994 and the diagnosis since 1998. As you will read in her opening piece, Life in the Slow Lane, Alzheimer's has profoundly altered her life; Marilyn has not, however, allowed these changes to engulf the pleasures, joys, and challenges that remain. Marilyn is quite simply inspirational, she celebrates the days and moments as they come to her, she responds with energy to the many challenges that confront her and she campaigns for a better life for all persons with dementia. Writing her article and coediting this journal has taken a great many of Marilyn's especially precious moments and much energy. Marilyn, we thank you for this tremendous gift, we know that it will benefit many.

As editor, I cannot possibly do better now than to let Marilyn's eloquent words speak for themselves. I invite you to learn and grow from Marilyn's article, and the many other excellent articles in this issue that Marilyn helped to shape, and most of all to follow Marilyn's shining example and Carpe Diem, seize the day!