Aging
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YOU HAVE AN AMAZING BODY
“You have an amazing body,” a complete stranger said to me last night as I sat in our local bookstore listening to an author give a reading. Okay, I did have a moment of schoolgirl giddiness to hear an opening line I haven’t heard since I was in my 20’s. However, my response was curt:… Read more
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FIVE THINGS YOU DON’T DO OVER 50
1. Fluff your hair and reapply lipstick when the cop pulls you over for speeding. (You’re desperately trying to remember where you put the registration). 2. Cut in line. Anywhere at any time. (At your age it just looks bad). 3. Laugh out loud at something on your cell phone while intimately seated in the… Read more
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‘OLD LOOKING’ YOUNG
Striding into my sixth decade, I have finally accepted the fact that I am no longer 21. Looking in the mirror has not convinced me because I still see my younger self in that reflection. I can do the math: my own daughter just turned 21. That wasn’t the clincher either. Even my husband insists… Read more
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MAYhem IN JUNE
A girl named, “June” almost cleaned my clock during a three hour match on the tennis courts this afternoon. As the temperature soared to 90 degrees, she sent me left, then right, then shot up a high lob that I lost in the sun. Her serve, always precise and with a punch, aced me in… Read more
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EMBRACE OR ERASE
Exactly two weeks ago, my beloved and favorite uncle sat down and hand wrote me a lovely two-page letter. He included, as he often did, an article of interest from the local paper. Then he mailed it, drove to a deserted parking lot, put a gun to his chest and pulled the trigger. And while… Read more
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GOING, GOING. . .
“Much ado has been made about Alzheimer’s…but the real problem facing us right now are our elderly.” Read more
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LOOSEN UP!!!
Do you know who the most uptight people are?? The young. Go figure. While they are telling the rest of us to, “Chill out,” they are trying so desperately to, “Fit in,” they can’t see straight. There is NOTHING more anxiety producing than trying to get somewhere fast without a map. Worse? Most of them… Read more
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GET OFF THE ROAD, GRANDMA!
Pushing my grocery cart towards the automatic doors, I can’t help but notice the older man just ahead of me. He is tall and spry, and the bright, yellow sweater he wears sets off his sharp, new haircut. I observe these details because when the automatic doors open, he doesn’t budge. “Waiting for… Read more
AGEFULLY AGING 