Tag: Aging Tales
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If Sitting is the New Smoking…
Then I must be up to three packs a day. Since beginning my new job this past Spring, I have felt terribly restricted. The amount of time I spend sitting is outrageous. Driving to work. Sitting in my office. Meetings. Driving home from work…in traffic – delaying me in my…
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“Old” Hands Gave LIFE
Little children rub their grandparents hands with love. Teenagers sometimes make rude comments about “old people skin”. Such a comment was recently spoken by a random stranger to her friends about an elderly person next to her. The young girl was probably fortunate that it was in speedy-passing without us…
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Reminiscing During a Walk at the Park
I’ve been walking our local parks for years. I love them all (and we have several) for their individuality, but one close to my house has beauty, water and multiple sports fields that hold sentimental value to me.My son ran many-a-bases and threw countless pitches on the various baseball diamonds.…
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My Empty-Bucket List
Throwback Thursday 5/31/2013 For many years, I’ve conducted an activity with my college students, asking them to create their own version of the famous “Bucket List”. I warn them that the list should not include professional goals necessarily, but rather focus upon the “really neat”, “exciting”, “extraordinary”, places, events, activities,…
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10 Things I Believed at 25 That Proved False by 45
Ahhhh, to be 20-something… Like most during those years, I had very definite impressions about how my life would progress. I would eventually learn, and after serious resistance – accept – that life has a way of detouring, surprising and wearing down a person, leaving a few disappointments along the…
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 