On yesterday’s post in regard to Senator Bernie Sanders’ support of elders, Social Security and Medicare, Denise left this comment: “How can we get seniors out there? I’m an insurance agent working with Medicare-related products, so I am talking to…
Continue Reading Here we are, you and I, hanging out on a blog that states right at the top that it is about “what it’s really like to get old” and yet we don’t talk about death and dying – or hardly…
Continue ReadingRead Cockeyed Optimists in a Crybaby Culture, a post by Robert Stein on his blog, Connecting the Dots. Using the wonderful old Rogers and Hammerstein South Pacific song, I’m a Cockeyed Optimist as a metaphor, Stein looks at the way our American c…
Continue ReadingYou may have noticed that I don’t do book reviews. The main reason is that there are so many bad ones related to aging and I don’t see the point of writing about a book I threw across the room…
Continue Reading As Ann Shaw (who blogs here) remarked on one of my flu fogged posts earlier this week: “There’s nothing like enforced rest in bed to get you thinking.” She is right, you know. All sorts of odd and (occasionally) interesting…
Continue Reading Okay, before I get into this post, please recall that I am spending most of my time in bed with chills, aches, pains and general low-level feverishness so I have no sense of how well I’m thinking. You’ll have to…
Continue ReadingI’m on hiatus until Monday 19 September. The Elder Storytelling Place continues as will Interesting Stuff on Saturday and Peter Tibbles’ Elder Music on Sunday.
At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Richard J. Klade: Oh, It Would be Sad
Continue ReadingLast year on Labor Day, I showed you some of the outdoor sculpture around this town, Lake Oswego, where I live now. Another year has passed and I’ve had more time to explore. Wow – the sculpture collection, in out…
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