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  • HOLDING ON

    HOLDING ON

    Re-blogged from November 23, 2014 We met soon after my husband and I moved into a house in a forested community in Chapel Hill. Still working full time, I took my long walks over the weekend. As I trudged up a particularly steep hill, an older man wearing a floppy hat and listing slightly towards… Read more

  • Surviving a Knee Injury at 80

    Surviving a Knee Injury at 80

    Sharing the experience of a knee injury. Read more

  • 60th Nursing School Reunion or How Did We Get This Old?

    60th Nursing School Reunion or How Did We Get This Old?

    . . . we take our leave after cake and coffee with tight throats, warm hugs, and moist eyes, to say our long good-byes. Read more

  • Counting the Dead

    Counting the Dead

    How many will show at the 60th nursing reunion of St. Peter’s School of Nursing at Cape May, NJ? Read more

  • Bittersweet Reunion

    Bittersweet Reunion

    Have you ever called a friend because you had a feeling that something awful happened to them? I have and usually it’s a false alarm. I hadn’t heard from our old friends, Jim and Sue (not their real names), in a few months. I had an uncomfortable feeling that things were not right with them.… Read more

  • When A Compliment Is Not A Compliment.

    When A Compliment Is Not A Compliment.

    I’ve written many posts about ageism. What I’ve not addressed is how older persons could react to the “compliment” that we look or act so “young,” as if youth is the gold standard and “aging” is undesirable. (Notice I did not say SHOULD since I’m not giving advice but laying out my thoughts on ageism) … Read more