Tag: adjusting to age

What’s Next is Beautiful

Posted on March 6, 2015 by

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More and more, I want to bust out. Change things up. Be redder. It’s about ownership, admission, sitting still, standing up, wearing my skin like a second skin, buying smaller jeans, reaching across the table for what I want, not waiting to have a… Continue Reading “What’s Next is Beautiful”

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The End/Start of Cool

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

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#5 of 18 The hardest part about getting older is not becoming one of these. It seems like turning 65 kicks off a huge transformation. People who were formerly cool become bingo fanatics. They learn to polka and sign up for educational tours of… Continue Reading “The End/Start of Cool”

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What happens here on Red's Wrap is all over the map. There is no single theme, no overarching gripe, no malady of my own or others that dominates. I write about what seems important or interesting at the moment and what aims me toward hope. I write stories, essays, poems - whatever fits the day and the mood. Nothing stays the same, here or anywhere. That's a good thing. Happiness. It's relative.

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