Barbara Morris

Every year thousands of people reach their fifties and sixties and are designated "senior citizens." For them, youth is gone, never to return. Their decline is inevitable, based on their chronological (calendar)  age. That is not true, but it is universally accepted as true. Social Security agrees it's true and starts to dole out retirement benefits at age 65 or before. In … [Read more...] about Aging Is A Curable Disease And You Can Do It

I wish I’d felt inspired to craft some other writing this month, but I didn’t. You see, I was at my office in Midtown Manhattan on that splendid Tuesday, September 11, 2001. And now, 20 years later, consider what’s happening in our country (USA)—especially at the southern border allowed to be open for nearly nine months (and in many ways, still is), in Afghanistan, and … [Read more...] about The Time to Choose Is Now

In the past year, I can hardly remember when I could make a phone call, expecting to hear the voice of a representative and not have the COVID message reminding me of the changes and holding me longer due to the pandemic. So, on the one hand, I tried to understand; on the other, I was a bit annoyed. The eternal season of COVID had marched into our lives and taken us hostage. … [Read more...] about Staying Connected In A COVID Culture

Lately, my white hair has been annoying me. I think I'm going to change the color -- again. Thinking about the color I want to change it to, I remembered an article I wrote in 2007 that is just as relevant now as it was then. Here it is: Miss Dorothy, who cut and colored my hair for years, retired. I was devastated. After all, she's just a kid - she's only sixty. … [Read more...] about Got White Hair? Try Orange!