Advocating Non-Traditional Lifelong Growth and Productivity
A few years back, while doing laundry in one of our building's communal laundry rooms, I was unprepared for one of our washers getting stuck in the spin cycle. There are only six washers and six dryers in a 90-unit Senior setting with three floors—two per floor. Our first floor is the only one with a front and top loader. I will not get into the prices … [Read more...] about Regaining Our Balance
Let's begin with this. I was one of those children who clicked on a flashlight and read under the covers long after my mother called for "lights out." There was too much going on in my childhood books for me to give them over to something as needless as sleep.
My mother was confident that I would burn my eyes out if I continued that voracious reading, but I … [Read more...] about Midnight Meanderings With My Friends
In December of 2020, I got a call from Katy Read of the Star Tribune, asking if I would like to participate in a project where one younger and one older writer would get together and have the younger writer do weekly interviews with the senior writer so that we could tell our stories, memoir style to see what would happen. The entire project was more than … [Read more...] about Faith Through A Different Lens
I have rolled this story over in my head many times. I have been deciding if it is worth sharing. In the end, I believe it has worth and relevance, especially for seniors wrestling with limitations in the body that once sprinted out of bed without a hitch. Other parts that have given way to aches and pains almost daily can baffle and amaze us (not always in a good way). I … [Read more...] about Doing The Impossible Is Possible
