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Keep On Keeping On Works as a Motto for Aging

Beginnings and Endings

May 4, 2017

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 […]

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In Honor of the Free Spirit in Us All

April 28, 2017

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 […]

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Brotherly Love

April 20, 2017

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 […]

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You win some, you lose some…but your wins can overcome your losses!

April 12, 2017

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 […]

Enjoy the moment, and find beauty around you.

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Fill Your Space in a Beautiful Way

April 5, 2017

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 […]

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Denial is NOT a River in Egypt

March 28, 2017

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 […]

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Keeping the Gold in Those Golden Years

March 16, 2017

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 […]

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Springing Forward, or Gazing Back? Thoughts on Turning 70

March 9, 2017

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 […]

We just need to keep searching for the cause and cure of Alzneimer's

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100 Years and Still Searching…

March 3, 2017

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 […]

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