Growing Old, Gracefully.
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Bump on a log
What strong utterance did your mom blurt out at you when you weren’t being the perfect child she had dreamed of raising? (Come on now, your mother must have lost it every now and then.) My mother, Irene, valued gumption over any other positive trait. Just sitting or standing …
My chicken vegetable soup
Lucy, a good friend, tells me she wants everyone to like her. She gets downhearted if she suspects someone doesn’t warm up to her affable way. I tell Lucy I fix a wonderful chicken vegetable soup based on suggestions I’ve received from many people over the years. I …
Getting socked
Simple tasks that were second nature to me for decades have now become challenges. Putting my socks on in the morning is one of them. Either my legs got longer or my arms shorter, but now there are often a few inches separating my foot from the outstretched sock shaking in …
Super star
Looking back on my sports career, only a few minor obstacles kept me from being a famous pro athlete in either basketball or football. I close my eyes and see visions of me being interviewed by ESPN or signing autographs for all the little kids who have dreams of being just …
Extra credit
For those of you falling behind in Aging 101, you have the opportunity to complete this extra credit assignment. Make a list of those things you know you should be doing, but you don’t. Below are five of out of the nearly 100 I came up with. This was a no-brainer challenge …