This was Mexico at its best.

The older we get, the harder it is to learn a new language.

This isn't the first time it has happened. In truth, it happens all the time. I'm in a group, say, at a concert or a play and look around me. I am surroun...

I'm a political junkie.

For those who don't speak a word of Yddish, a kvetch is a big-time complainer. My paternal grandparents spoke Yiddish when they didn't want me to understand...

If we can't laugh about aging, we're in deep sh___. "Your Immortality Application" (The New Yorker, October 28, 2019) by Cora Frazier sees our occasional que...

Whenever I wanted feedback on a piece of my writing, I would call my mother. She listened patiently as I read, sometimes stumbling over notes in the margins...

Amidst all the hoopla about the advantages of aging (self-confidence, experience, even power--badges that I have touted at length in this bl

I could never be a guest on HGTV, even if the Property Brothers or Chip and Joanna offered to build the house of my dreams.

10 Steps to Save Your Sanity in 2020

How often have you heard someone say, "You're only as old as you feel?" Is there some truth to that philosophy?

Maybe as a two-year-old, I drove my parents crazy and set a record for the number of times I asserted my independence and screamed "No!" There's a photo of ...

Don't get excited: I'm not talking about trained therapists with all kinds of degrees who charge enormous sums for a 45-to-60 minute session that seems to en...

I was reading an article about Diana Nyad, the long-distance swimmer who broke every record on the books. In the New Yorker piece from February 10, 2014, Ny...

If you go to the refrigerator and forget why you were there--not a big deal. But if you make the same trip and forget what a refrigerator i

There is something bugging me. Not a big thing, not an important thing. It's just that I bristle when I hear that someone is gone or has expired or has pas...

I guess I'm out of step--behind the curve. Until this morning, I had heard rumbling about the clash between Boomers and Millenials but wasn't aware that soc...

I walked into the dressing room at TJMax yesterday afternoon in search of one or two new sweaters to replace several in my closet that have seen better days-...

People is not where I'd look to find the secret to aging. Actually, I'm not sure where I'd look but definitely not in the gossip rag about celebrities, thei...

I hadn't seen my sister in two years--two years until last week. She lives in Ohio; I live in Illinois. It's a six-hour drive, if not longer. It's a drive...