Releasing Your Former Life

How to Live Happily in Covid-19 Times

Why I Marched

A very nice male friend of mine (my age) asked me yesterday why I marched. He asked whether he or any other man had ever failed to…

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Last week I peed in my pants. Not leaked a little, but flat out peed. TMI? Don’t move on from this so fast. It happens to both men and women. Why do you think they have all those rows of pads in the drug store?

Is Donald Trump Worth Dying For?

Here something worth having a discussion about. I’m 75, and quite healthy and functional. Yesterday I went to the doctor’s office because I was shaky, woozy, and had a rapid heart beat. My blood pressure was also high.

In a Special Class

“Can I ask you a question, goddess?” My foster daughter Amanda was at the sink with me in the ladies’ room at Burger King. We…

Snapchat Spectacles Are Sick!

There’s a lot I don’t know yet about Snapchat Spectacles, which is why I’m posting this to the Aging…

Grief

I lost three old friends this week, all of whom were woven into the fabric of my life. Their loss leaves that fabric a bit more shredded and…

Have We Progressed at All in the Last Fifty Years

A Contrarian View

The past few weeks have hit me like being rolled over by a truck. They have questioned all my assumptions, and I’m not sure I have answers to the things that I’ve been meditating on all…

America in the Forties: Immigrants and Aspiration

One of the Vulnerable

As one of the vulnerable, I’ve been stuck in the house now for six weeks, learning every detail about the Coronavirus. I have seen only about half a dozen people who are part of my quarantine barrier: people with whom I walk my dogs outside in the morning, my roommate, my barista and the…