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
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
Last week, I tried to find some good news stories about people who are older. My plan was to post them on Facebook, so I could publicize something positive about seniors. I didn’t find any. Not one. Instead I found an article on Alzheimer’s, an article on how badly hospitals… Read More »Is There Any Good News About Getting Older?
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
It’s no secret that the young don’t see us. To them, we are invisible. We don’t turn up in magazines and newspapers, we are absent in television programs and news reports, and we are seldom featured in movies. Life goes on around us, but we are increasingly not present in… Read More »If Nobody Sees Us, Are We Still Here?
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 Images for the fashions we wore as young women in the 1950s just don’t resonate accurately with the pictures I see in historical references to the designers.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
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