Is aging truly an attitude? What keeps some people vital and active through the decades while others start saying, “I’m too old to do that†in their thirties? On a recent Today Show segment in which an expert on social situations was offering advice, a question from a viewer came in. The viewer was irritated that an elderly neighbor woman… Read More
Laughter…Does Not Mix With The Sounds Of Silence
I believe I’ve touched on this point before, but it happens often enough that I had to come back. Why is it when a room is dead quiet, like during a silent prayer or while taking a test, that funny, inappropriate sounds emerge so loudly? And, why is it those sounds then make me get the giggles at a time… Read More
Gray Area
I felt the image I have of myself crumple as tightly and as ruinously as the wad of paper I tossed at the wastebasket. I missed the basket, but that is not what brought about the destruction of my self-esteem. It was the content of the letter I had just crushed with fervor. How is it that a few simple… Read More
Car-ling, I Love You
The other day I was having lunch with my friend Judy. She told me her grandson just passed his driver’s license test and was thinking about buying his first car.  That got Judy and I on the subject of cars we’ve owned and loved over the years. I told her my very first car was a 1972 Ford Maverick, a… Read More
The Longest Goodbye
I went to a funeral on Friday. Even now I’m trying to understand my feelings about attending, and why this internal conflict has rocked me a bit. The woman, I’ll call her “Ann” for blog purposes, was someone I worked with many years ago. Ann began as a receptionist for the dental clinic soon after graduating from high school. Her… Read More
Cindy And The Piano Man
My friend Cindy had a birthday last week. We won’t talk numbers because those are an irrelevant marker to a life well lived. Let’s just say Cindy is aging with a mighty beautiful patina. This is a woman who recently wore a dress that fit her so well the term “Pippa Butt†was bandied about with envious appreciation each time… Read More
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