When you were a kid, you knew what friends were for. You lived for having friendships. Your life would be worthless, you believed, if you didn’t have friends. You wanted to do everything with them, have meals with them, share happy times with them, even have sleep-overs with them. Your… Read More »That’s What Friends Are For
It’s a difficult thing to do—this thing we call ‘living in the moment’. The call of the future is powerful. It constantly distracts us with thoughts like, “What should I do next?” and “Okay, I have finished this, now I should do that.” And the call of the past is… Read More »Is Living In The Moment Harder As We Age?
Several months have rolled by since I wrote a post about my exercise routine. I’m happy to report that I’m still at it, although the setting and some of the equipment have changed. I am no longer in the same home, and consequently, the view I have from my exercise… Read More »The Risk of Putting Exercise on Pause
So, you have decided to move. If you haven’t moved a lot in your life, you might think, “Oh, this will be easy. I’ll just get some boxes, a black felt pen, a roll of white paper, and start packing!” But, if you have moved a few times before, you’ll… Read More »Transfer Trauma, or in Other Words, Moving
I took it seriously when the WHO declared a pandemic was taking hold across the world. Whatever happened next will be a case for history, but from that moment on, I lived within its shadow, at least for the next few weeks. It changed me for a while. I couldn’t… Read More »No More Walking, Doctors Say
I hear it everywhere—“Time just flies by!”“Where has the time gone?” It’s a sentiment I hear more and more among people around me. And I feel it too, especially at this time of year when there are extra things to do. Three weeks ago, as I sorted through our Christmas… Read More »Time Flows Through All Lives Equally, So They Say
If you are anything like Bob and me, and possibly like most other people, you like to eat out. We’ve developed the habit of going out for dinner every Sunday, just the two of us. It’s a way to connect over a nice meal, and enjoy each others’ company—a time… Read More »Any Given Sunday
When you were going to school, did your teacher ever ask you, on the first day of school in September, to write about what you did last summer? And did you moan and groan about it since, like all kids, what was done was done, and all you wanted was… Read More »Reflecting on My Summer Break
It seems that we prefer almost any activity over the risk of being bored. It’s human nature to want to avoid that feeling of nothingness. Fortunately (or unfortunately), technology has provided us with an array of choices, Netflix, texting, playing computer games, watching television—all designed to fill those mental spaces… Read More »How the Gift of Boredom Can Rock Your Retirement!
Here it is, 5:30 in the morning, and I’m still waiting for inspiration to strike. Crack! Something hits me on the right side of my head, somewhere between the four hemispheres of the cerebrum and the cerebellum. “Hey,” I yell, “Not so hard—that hurt!” It’s my Muse, and she’s obviously… Read More »I Need to Find Another Muse
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