Try this: Succinctly describe (without Googling it!) the linear pair theorem. Or, to the nearest mile, list the circumference, radius, and volume of the moon. Stumped? And yet at one time, committing facts such as these to memory was of paramount importance, keeping us up into the wee hours of the morning as we studied […]
How about some fun for this Friday? And, a memory test for those of you who were born before 1955. Enjoy! What builds strong bodies 12 ways? Flintstones vitamins The Buttmaster Spaghetti Wonder Bread Orange Juice Milk Cod Liver Oil Before he was Muhammed Ali, he was… Sugar Ray Robinson Roy […]
We all know that it takes a village to raise a child, and as it turns out, the village concept carries over really well into aging. We know that isolation has an enormous impact on the emotional, psychological and physical wellbeing of older adults, with the potential for such serious consequences as depression and an […]
Classic fairytales have one thing in common: there’s a definite beginning (“Once upon a time…”) and a neatly wrapped up ending (“They lived happily ever after!”) Real life, however, is full of beginnings and endings and beginnings again, more cyclical and with less clearly defined boundaries. I’m especially pondering new beginnings today, as I prepare […]
There’s an anticipated normal progression to life: We’re born. We grow up. We grow old. We die. And they say what’s really important is the “dash” – that “grow up and grow old” part of the equation that falls between our birth and our death, represented simply by the dash on our tombstone between those […]
As the youngest child and the only girl, I had both the pleasure and the trauma of older brothers. My oldest brother, however, was ever the protector, ever the watchful, ever the wise as he assisted me in navigating early adolescence. You see, he left home when I was 12, and really never returned when […]
I hate to burst anyone’s brightly sparkling Boomer bubble, but there’s no denying it: we do lose a lot as we age. Whether it’s superficial losses – a little less hair or firmness, for example – or something more significant – physical health, the passing of loved ones, memory and cognitive ability – we can’t […]
Take a walk back in time with me; WAY back, for some of us – to our first grade classroom. We’re perched on the edge of our minuscule, hard wooden chairs, hands splayed across the graffiti etched surface of the low tabletop before us, eyes sparkling as we eagerly watch the teacher – the ART […]
