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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

Ruth, the second youngest of six children, was born in 1897 in Sault St. Marie, Michigan. She was forty-eight by the time I arrived less than two months bef...

Yep, talking about boobs and annual mammograms. Today was this year's screening. I've had two scares: one about 25 years ago when we first moved from the ci...

Okay, so it's dreary. No sun. Good possibility of rain. BUT, I don't have to wear a coat or a jacket to venture outside. My garden, though fading, is sti...

There was no violence at Woodstock. No fighting, no attacks, no killing. (There was, if I recall, some bad acid.) It was a celebration of

An expert on skin care I am not. Like most older women, I've tried a smorgasbord of products over the years. Expensive moisturizers, soaps, eye creams, ant...

Yep. That's right: we get to bitch and moan about our aches and pains, our bodies--even our partners. We have 60 seconds. Then time is up. "My knees are k...

When I googled the phrase "Move it or lose it," my screen flooded with ads for local and national moving companies. And here I thought the "call to action" ...

Not long ago, I mentioned to my younger and only sister that I was aging exactly like our mother. I seemed a clone of her older self with the same lines abo...