Aging

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

January 26, 2014

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HOME

I’ve done some odd things the last few years: put the bills in the icebox, then headed to the mailbox with a carton of milk; gone to change a light bulb, only to put the burned out bulb right back into the socket; sprayed oven cleaner on the windows right after I sprayed… Read more

December 28, 2013

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GET UP AND GO!

Had a great laugh this morning when I asked my 90 year-old pal how his ‘get up and go’ was. “Oh, it’s great,” he enthused. “In fact, every time I get up I have to go, if you know what I mean,” he confided. I do. Frankly, if peeing were an event in the Olympics,… Read more

November 6, 2013

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TOP TEN ‘UP’SIDES OF GOING DOWNHILL

12. A good night’s sleep can happen smack in the middle of the day. 11.. When your car gets towed, you are actually entitled to a senior discount! 10. No one tries to slip a ‘date rape’ drug in your drink. 9. Store clerks don’t try to sell you spandex or stilettos anymore. 8. … Read more

October 6, 2013

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PUT ME IN A HOME AND I’LL PUT YOU IN THE GROUND

Finally! After 3 weeks at the gym, somebody finally talked to me! Granted, he was 89, had false teeth, a zillion old age spots and was semi-bald, but he actually TALKED to me. I was so happy, I almost hugged him. I had contemplated giving up this whole weight-lifting routine—not because it’s hard but because… Read more

September 25, 2013

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DON’T DIE WITH THIS REGRET

“I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me,” is the regret most often heard from the lips of the dying. Those were the findings of an Australian palliative nurse. So, if this is true about us, does that mean the primary reason for… Read more

September 15, 2013

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TEN FEET TALL

Okay, so maybe I was putting off my new gym routine workout. Or maybe I was looking to add that ‘new hobby’ all the experts say is important at my age. But the way I see it, that 8 year-old making baskets all by himself at the Y last week just needed a little… Read more

September 1, 2013

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BEYOND THE BEND

I visited a hospital twice this week: first to see the newborn son of my handyman and then to sing to my ninety year-old, dear friend as he drew his last breaths. Odd as it may seem to the reader, both were joyous events. The first because I glimpsed the future in the face of… Read more

August 3, 2013

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BACK UP!

As I deliver this bit of shocking news, I hope that you are not sitting down. Frankly, you need to be standing at attention. Here goes: if you are over 40, only about 60% of you have even thought about getting old. However, one third of you prefer, ‘not to think about aging at all.’ … Read more

May 12, 2013

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CAN’T STOP

I need to get this down before we get to the bottom of the Boston Marathon tragedy yesterday. While media crews swarm and investigators forage for the perpetrators of this horror, I am making myself focus on that 78 year-old man who was running his 4th marathon. You know, the one who was blown to… Read more

April 16, 2013

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