Defeating Ageism – Are Boomers Taking All the Credit? I’m within spitting distance of being a Boomer, but I’m not proud of what some Boomers have been saying about the gains being made in addressing & defeating ageism. A lot has been happening around this thorny issue. Two or three… Read More »Defeating Ageism – Are Boomers Taking All the Credit?
I am halfway down the stairs, feeling each step with my foot before I go down further, since the flashlight beam doesn’t go very far. Suddenly it goes out, and I am in complete blackness! I look up quickly. The kitchen lamp sends a wash of light over a few… Read More »A Senior Remembers: Secrets of the Root Cellar
As a Boomer or Pre-Boomer, who is 65 and over, you are more conscious of your health and well-being than ever before. Gone are the days when you over-indulged in food and alcohol, when you took reckless chances with your safety, and when you ignored your body’s need for exercise.… Read More »Boomers Over 65, But Not Over the Hill
When you experience a loss, it changes you. You can adapt to it, you can absorb it and move on—or you can dwell on it and become embittered.
As you age, losses come in many guises, a friend or loved one may die, you might lose your financial power, or you might lose your independence. These losses are major, and your recovery may require considerable effort, such as going for counselling or retreating from life for a while.
My research for this post took me to Cassini, Dior, Balenciaga, Chanel, and back to Cassini. Images for the fashions we wore as young women in the 1950s just don’t resonate accurately with the pictures I see in historical references to the designers. Long before we saw the fashions, we… Read More »From Runway to Real Life
Yesterday morning, before I had my coffee I opened the fridge door and stood there. “What am I doing here?” I wondered aloud, (not to be mistaken for “Why do I exist?). It took me a few seconds to remember the item I wanted, and I moved on to make breakfast. … Read More »Why Am I Here?
Today The Heiress seems such a simple story— a Harlequin romance, without the feel-good ending—but at the time, it got my attention, and I remembered it for decades. The movie was filmed in 1949, but didn’t reach the northern Canadian community where I lived until I was thirteen, in 1952. … Read More »“The Heiress”, Smash Hit of 1949
The first sign of impending old age, and it’s twin, Alzheimer’s, the pundits say, is the tendency of older people to put less effort into their social network. “Mum doesn’t go out much anymore”, adult children worry, “Her circle of friends is getting smaller and smaller.” It could be her… Read More »Culling Your Relationships As You Age
Across the western world, one of the greatest concerns of the Lucky Few was providing a social safety net for future generations, something which had been non-existent for them. Advancing security for the most vulnerable, and putting an end to poverty and inequality for future generations were their proudest achievements.… Read More »Elders Ask “Why Don’t Young People Vote?”
In a list of significant movies of 1948, So Dear to My Heart hardly makes the cut, and doesn’t even merit a full page on Wikipedia, but for me, a girl living on a farm in northern Canada, it was spectacular. True, it was the first movie I had ever… Read More »So Dear To My Heart-The Movie
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