Category Archives: Aging

Back in 1962, when I was first married, my grocery budget was $15.00 a week.   With that amount I easily bought a week’s worth of groceries, including lamb chops and other expensive cuts of meats.   Today, I spent $140.00 on … Continue reading →

Can you tell I’ve been visiting a nursing home again?   This is a particularly lovely one; yet,  it still depressed the heck out of me.    I don’t want other people making all my choices for me.  I don’t want to … Continue reading →

Life is one long transition; nothing profound about that statement.  It’s living out those transitions that is profound.  Everything looks so easy, so organized, so simple on paper. Much less so when it’s the hours and minutes of our days that are … Continue reading →

It’s a sure sign of being old….wondering how/why time flies so quickly.  Zooom, another month, another year, and pretty soon an entire life gone by.   Did we accomplish what we hoped?  Do interesting things?   Make life-long friends?   Did we become … Continue reading →

I am trying to come to terms with the fact that I am officially ‘old.’  That doesn’t seem right.  I don’t even feel middle-aged yet.   But last week I heard (maybe read?) that middle age is 46-64.   Well, shoot.  I … Continue reading →

My friend Joyce is getting sprung from the nursing home/rehab place on Friday, and TG!  The place depresses the hell out of me.   Note to my girls:  I know I promised to go gracefully when my time came, but you … Continue reading →

Don’t worry about avoiding temptation . as you grow older, it will avoid you.— Winston Churchill Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty … but  everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or  spread out.— Phyllis Diller By … Continue reading →

A friend of Oscar’s is in a nursing home.  Three times now Oscar has visited him, and three times he has come home sad.  Does a nursing home have to be a sad place I wonder?   True, there is disability … Continue reading →