Adult Aging
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Funny Business
He was like a playful boy on stage. His demeanor implied that he was getting away with something and we were in his ‘little escapade’ together. And, oh, what a ride he gave us! I was lucky enough to see Robin Williams in the late 70’s at the Greek Theater in LA. He was opening… Read more
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Who Knows Where The Time Goes???
I don’t. It has sifted through my own hands like so much dust. Just as it did for Sandy Denny, this folksinger from the 60’s who wrote and sang this song which Judy Collins later made famous. Sandy never lived to see the fruition of her life’s work. She died at 31, simply falling… Read more
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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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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
AGEFULLY AGING 