Aging Parents
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TO 75 AND BEYOND!!!
If you have not yet read, “Why I hope to die at 75,” by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel in this month’s Atlantic, don’t bother. He may be a distinguished scientist, head the Department of Medical Ethics at U Penn and be a primary architect of Obamacare, but frankly he’s not too swift. At first I thought… Read more
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LIVE TO TELL
I had a BLAST being young. At 18, flying north on the Black Canyon Freeway headed out of Phoenix I remember the rush when I floored the car to 100 mph. It was thrilling and scary but once I hit 100 I eased off the gas. I wanted to live to tell about it.… Read more
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ONE IN TEN
How dare TIME magazine announce: “Alzheimer’s: At last, some progress against the most stubborn disease.” Imagine my disappointment to read merely the same old stuff: It’s hereditary. No drug cures it. Some have side effects worse than the disease itself. We still spend 5 billion a year on cancer research and only 500 million a… Read more
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HERE’S TO INDEPENDENCE!!
“We repeat ourselves generation to generation. We do it in different languages, under different skies and in different times but the pattern doesn’t change. . .Some of us die fighting like those who won our independence. Some of us have no fight at all. Most of us lie somewhere in between.” Read more
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KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN
“He looked perfectly fine with a nice haircut and everything, only his eyes were closed and he wasn’t breathing. I know because I stood there long enough to be sure of that.” Read more
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GETTING THERE JUST HAPPENS
I pretty much have an answer for everything and even when I don’t, I pretty much come up with something. Every now and then, though, I get thrown. Today, I was at a loss for words not once but twice. A gal in her 80’s asked me what it was like, “to feel that… Read more
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EXTENDED PLAY (EP)
“But I wanted to know WHO wrote that song, so asked that he be pointed out. As the audience began to applaud, I strained to see where he was. There, in the very back row, an older man with white hair shyly put up his hand.” Read more
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FACE OFF ALZHEIMER’S WITH FACEBOOK
Two years ago my 15 year-old suggested that I get a FACEBOOK. I told her that was ‘the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of.’ I am eating my words. In the last two years I have found not only old friends, teachers and ex-students, but have entered a cyberspace world that adds richness to my… Read more
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“GRAY IS THE NEW BLONDE”
That’s exactly what the receptionist said to me this afternoon as I was paying a doctor’s bill. I had just made fun of their new office sign which said: Settle Your Encounters Here. “Encounters? Good grief. Why don’t you just say, ‘Bills?’ Are we going back to the 70’s or something?” The young receptionist, (who reminded me… Read more
AGEFULLY AGING 