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 […]
Have you ever played hide ‘n seek with a preschooler? Without fail, there’s always one little one that will simply cover her eyes when it’s her turn to hide. After all, if she can’t see you, you must not be able to see her – right? In some ways, we hold onto that concept of […]
On this, my 70th birthday, I am feeling rather frisky. And, I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit weary of all the doom-and-gloom aging statistics we’ve heard so much about lately; how the explosion of Baby Boomers is going to result disastrously in a disproportionate ratio of available caregivers, for example. (Although that […]
Certain milestones tend to give us pause, bringing us to a fork in the road that leads us to not only decide which path to take next but to reflect back on those we’ve chosen that have brought us to this point. Whether and to whom we might marry. Whether to have children, and if […]
Let’s take a step back in time, way back, to the year 1906. If we visited the Frankfurt Mental Asylum, perhaps we could peer over the shoulder of Dr. Alois Alzheimer as he obsessed over the cause behind the strange behaviors of a 51-year-old patient – and soon after, discovered the abnormal, tangled clumps and […]
Before there was such a thing as “American Idol,” we all grew up swooning over one or another of the dreamy teen idols of our day. Frank Sinatra. Elvis. The Beatles. They were golden in our eyes, infallible and unshakeable. Whatever else was going wrong in our hormone-induced, drama-filled teenage worlds, these stars could transport […]
