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When I was young, I looked forward to getting older. When people would ask how old I was, sometimes I would say with great excitement, “I’m [...]
November 9, 2019
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Birthdays are special. Most of us enjoy receiving well wishes. We smile when we realize someone took the time to remember us. Heavenly birthdays [...]
November 8, 2019
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How old is old? When my husband and I were teaching nursing students, we did an experiment. We asked each student to write two numbers on a piece [...]
November 7, 2019
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The following is a true story, but I have changed the names to protect the privacy of those mentioned. I have often reflected on and written [...]
October 31, 2019
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Those of us in the healing professions are trained to achieve success. Our desire to help others is what brought us into our chosen fields. [...]
October 16, 2019
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As Jay and I have the Joy of growing older together, I think of the real life witnesses of Older Love who went before us. My parents were married [...]
September 21, 2019
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After my mother died, my father attempted to continue living alone in the same house they had shared for years. But it was clearly not the [...]
September 19, 2019
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September 11 will always prompt memories of the lives that were forever changed on that day. Most of our memories focus on those whose [...]
September 10, 2019
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Today is Grandparents Day. My parents had me later in life, so I missed the pleasure of knowing three of my four grandparents. But the one [...]
September 9, 2019
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The word voyage means a long journey. In September, 1977, the United State launched a space probe called Voyager with a mission of boldly going [...]
September 7, 2019
