Are we progressively falling apart, or less dramatically, is the more significant question “what really is aging?” In the last year I have had three surgeries that required anesthesia. Friends of mine have had breast cancer, melanoma, falling incidents, accidents, and broken bones. Harrumph…is this what getting older is all about? Progressive frailty is a reality…
Category: Retirement
Saturday night….and it’s all right
Retirement is likely to sound to the unretired like every night assumes a sameness. Since no one day is generally different routinely related to work or weekends,, there is an assumption that every day has a certain sameness. It doesn’t. There are certain life’s rituals that attach to days of the week. Also, there is…
Lucca, Italy
This morning I was reading the Sunpapers’ Life and Travel section. There is an interview (by Jae-Ha Kim) of the new book, “The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir” written by Sheila E. One of the questions was about travel and asked what untapped destination should people know about? The answer was Lucca, Italy.…
Chicory and Late Summer
This reminds me of my childhood and summer walks in a meadow. Common chicory is also known as blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailors, blue weed, bunk, coffeeweed, cornflower, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailors, succory, wild bachelor’s buttons, and wild endive (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). When cultivated, it is radicchio and Belgian endive. This plant has many…
Making Lefse
I am not Norwegian. Just so that is said upfront. My family by marriage is and very proud of it. Lefse is a Norwegian traditional bread. Don’t mistake Lefse (bread usually eaten with butter and sugar) for Lutifisk (fish dried in lye with a strong odor, and tastes just awful). Here is our family matriarch at…
Lullaby Time: Little Man You’ve Had A Busy Day
Nearly every newsletter on health, national newspapers columns on skin beauty, and talking TV heads emphatically stress the benefits of sleep. The 2013 International Bedroom Poll – National Sleep Foundation, is the first international sleep habits poll, http://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-polls-data/other-polls/2013-international-bedroom-poll , and it noted cultural differences among six countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany,…
Kayaking in South Bethany on a beautiful summer day
The vicissitudes of aging creep upon us. I have always played racquetball and kayaked since my twenties. It is always surprising when all of a sudden, my age reference point must be now, not the younger image I carry around inside. The outdoors is one of the best ways to spend a day in retirement if you…
Wednesdays
I began to work many years ago and my job involved interactions and sometimes very stressful conversations and lengthy discussions with people, employees, government officials, and unhappy folks. At that point in my life, I pretty much gave up idle chatter. Therein lies one of the challenges of retirement — there are no colleagues…
Voting
Here is the view from my voting machine. In the process of being only one of about five folks voting, all easily over 65 and two in a wheelchair, I began to think about why I vote or feel like I should vote. Where are the other 85% of the registered voters who are…
End of Spring Sunset
Enjoying the end of a lovely day here in Ocean City….almost summer. Sometimes it is hard to say how beautiful life is and then nature shows the uniqueness of this day.
