Tag: Aging in a Good Way

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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Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Tell You No Lies

Posted on June 3, 2012 by

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One of the freaky things about having a blog on WordPress.com is that I can see the search terms that people use that brought them to my site.  Sometimes, it’s pretty distressing, like when I posted about it being so hot when I adopted… Continue Reading “Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Tell You No Lies”

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It’s Not the First Tomollow, Honey

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

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When our granddaughter comes for the weekend on Friday night, she asks what we’re going to do on the first tomollow (Saturday) and on the second tomollow (Sunday) and then the semi-dreaded but kind of nice third tomollow (School, also known as Monday).  I… Continue Reading “It’s Not the First Tomollow, Honey”

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I Own This Face

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

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This is my face. For a long time I’ve wanted to disown my face. Years of smoking, laying around in the sun with no sunscreen, using cheap face creams, and basically not caring gave me drapes of wrinkles, some so deep they look intentional.… Continue Reading “I Own This Face”

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