Philosophy
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CLEAN UP YOUR ACT!
Life is messy. I don’t care how many times you clean the kitchen or how well. It just gets messy. Maybe it’s bread crumbs or a smear of jelly. Maybe it’s grease and pasta splattered across the stove. Maybe you made a smoothie and forgot to put the top on tight. But face it: … Read more
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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
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TELL IT LIKE IT IS
Interesting ride in the elevator this morning. As the doors closed, I went to push the UP button, but the four year-old next to me beat me to it, hitting the DOWN one instead. We headed down. “DADDY!” she shrieked, “Why aren’t we going UP???” “Because you pushed the DOWN button,” he said with a… Read more
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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
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“LOVE ALL, TRUST A FEW”
William Shakespeare sure understood a thing or two about people. In the 500 years since he wrote those words, we have not really changed all that much. “Trust,” as Granny always said, “has to be earned.” And since it April 1st, a day which ‘fools’ us all, I am contemplating what that word really means.… Read more
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DON’T BAT AN EYELASH!
Several times in recent weeks, perfect strangers, when seeing me with my youngest daughter have said, “Gosh. You look just alike!” or, “Well I can sure tell that she’s your daughter!” Funny thing is, until I saw this picture tonight, I almost believed them! But a picture IS worth a thousand words. . . and… Read more
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TOSS A COIN
I’m always on the lookout for pennies in the street. Once I picked up several dollars along with some cigarette butts and candy wrappers at a drive-thru. The young cashier actually thanked me for ‘cleaning the place up.’ She had no interest in retrieving those coins from the mucky street. None. That’s the problem with… Read more
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HAPPY ‘OLD’ YEAR
Well, now that the super rich are going to keep the rest of us from falling off the fiscal cliff, consider this: our elderly are going back into the workplace faster than you can shake a cane. Today alone, I was helped by more gray hairs than young folk. Walking into the supermarket, the stock… Read more
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HELEN HUDSON HERE: DOG OR GOD
I have tried hard to encourage my kids to use good judgment. As teenagers, they still wrestle the difference between doing the right thing or going with the crowd. And while this inner battle may peak in the teen years, I still see its’ vestiges amongst my senior friends. One, in her 80’s still dyes… Read more
AGEFULLY AGING 