Do you feel old for your age? Young for your age? Just right?
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“My mother chewed parsley after meals. She loved to bathe in water scented with orange blossoms…”
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Friday morning. It is a glorious morning filled with potential, yet I have been sitting here for the last two hours, aimlessly browsing the internet and playing a few games of addiction solitaire…
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I’m eighty now and I live alone, a situation so common that you might even say loneliness goes hand in hand with being old, that the old are experts in loneliness.”…
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The analogy of a puzzle has been a constant in my life. Whenever I did not understand something or got mired down in research without reaching a conclusion, I would ask myself, what is that missing puzzle piece…
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You may think I am too focused on growing old as you read this. But no, it is only that I am keenly aware this week that I am paddling north…
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When we were young, we needed external validation. And hopefully, we got it. Along life’s journey, we turn to self-validation. But I think my ability to practice self-validation may have been stunted…
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Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary…
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Older women are forging the kind of partnerships they want because society now allows different types of relationships…
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He sleeps up next to me like he always does. Says it soothes his soul. But it’s my restlessness that gets calmed with his big old body next to mine.
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Managing my mental health is very nearly a full-time job. I don’t take it lightly, because the stakes are high. Like many of us, I have a mind that is a very dangerous neighbourhood…
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“It’s taken me nearly 60 years to learn how to hold steady when the world around me seems to be becoming more crazy. And, in the end, it’s a simple thing, really…”
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In Senegal, when a woman dies, they say her library has burned down. The volumes of stories, experiences, and memories stored in the mind and soul disappear….
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I have not yet read A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. The main character, Ove, is described as the bitter neighbour from hell…
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I have a joke with my sister, who I love very much…how will we recognize each other in an abstract life when we’ve lost our physical form?
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I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman or child…
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Ageism is a bigger problem for women than aging. Our bodies and our sexuality are devalued…
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Winds accompanies me as I row north. Heavy gales occasionally make me fearful on this journey. Luckily, I never have to contend with much more than a gentle breeze…
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My island bedroom has a door that opens directly onto our deck. I sleep with the door wide open almost every night. The other evening my daughter crawled in beside me. Listen, I said to her…
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Your growth is not about some destination far in the future; it’s about the little day to day changes that make you feel a little more joy, the ones that make you feel a little bit lighter, a little bit more of you.
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