Category: Senior to Senior
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What happened to joy? It is still out there, it has to be, doesn’t it? It may take a good sermon to jog your memory, but surely words like gratitude, appreciation, and awe count for something. We tend to focus on the opposite of joy, which isn’t too surprising when the news focuses exclusively…
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You have heard the expression “all babies look alike,” well, they say it about seniors too. It’s not true of course, but it seems that once you pass 65 you begin to fade into the woodwork. The assumption is that gray hair, wrinkles, and sore feet are a sure sign that dementia is not far…
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A New Routine Retirement. How is that going for you? You dreamed about it for decades, but you are not alone if you find yourself feeling oddly bereft. No matter how you look at it, retirement is a “precursor to old age,” which is deflating to say the least. It is fun for us old…
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I don’t know about you, but getting a letter, whether via e-mail or finding it in the dusty crevices of your mailbox, is so great.Whether it comes from someone you haven’t thought of in years, or a friend that you know quite intimately, matters not. It is communication with the outside world. What could be…
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Rain drops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Everyone’s favorites things, but hardly likely to get you through rough times. Something else comes to mind, the “little things” that somehow make the ordinary become extraordinary. Little things that may be so insignificant that you barely notice them would be dearly missed if they were absent.…
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Everyone knows the glass half full story. It’s a great thought, but it gets harder to swallow as the years roll by. It relates though, depending on how you look at that glass. Senior friends tend to be happy to be alive and reasonably well, but that doesn’t mean they don’t complain about the “side…
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People of extraordinary wisdom have been telling us for years that the only thing we don’t have enough of is “time.” Of course we knew that, but it is so easy to forget. It takes a lifetime of living for that homily to sink in. When and why did we get so careless with…
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Seniors have a lot of decisions to make. You will likely shrug your shoulders and think that you have been doing this forever, what’s the big deal now? Think about it. Senior decisions are all “big deals,” mainly because you no longer have the luxury of changing your mind. The brain changes as you…
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Ah, I know what you are thinking. Leaving the nest is all about the kids leaving home. You have been there and done that, but what does that have to do with you now? Experiencing the classic empty nest syndrome, and physically leaving your own nest, is an entirely different story. However, the emotional overtones…
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Stop thinking of a bucket list as something only the rich and famous are entitled to. Everyone needs a bucket list. It’s a last hurrah, isn’t it? Bucket lists are traditionally thought of as all the things that you want to do before you die. Let’s substitute the word “try” instead of “die” and broaden…