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Finding Friends in Middle-Age
Reprinted from AnyShinyThing. You spent your life working and now, God willing, you’re looking at retirement. You’ll have time, glorious time! So you blow out the candles, go home with your plaque and...
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This Is What Sixty Looks Like
This is a delicate subject. When people say I look good for my age I feel like I’ve been given an illicit prize. It’s a race I’m not running. I don’t deserve acclaim. Besides, don’t they see my turkey...
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Boomer Men Share Housework
For women of a certain age, this is a seismic shift. As girls, it was our job to clean the toilets while our brothers mowed the lawns. We ironed shirts while they – well, we ironed shirts. Then those...
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Death With Dignity — Like Dudley
My brother and his wife recently put their beloved German Shorthair to sleep. Dudley was ready. (The photo is not of him.) Bro said Dudley told them when when it was time, and they put him on a...
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Your Middle-Aged Brain: Good News!
I’m looking for my glasses, but I can’t find them because they’re on my head. So I find my backups and try to put them on, but discover I’m already wearing a pair. I would feel stupid except at times,...
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Why Didn’t I Forgive Him Sooner?
I had a rough childhood, with a dad who was overwhelmed with work and financial stress, and a mother overwhelmed with him and four small children. How can I say this gently? Dad was violent. I grew up...
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A Contemplation on Mortality
Just before dawn on a cold October morning in 2008, I boarded a puddle-jumper out of North Dakota after my father’s funeral. Mom, my two siblings and I were returning to California, and it felt like...
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Staying Brave As We Age: Don’t Give Into Fear
As I sit writing in the pre-dawn, a blessing arrives: the sound of raindrops on my patio roof. I’m struck by inspiration: how beautiful it would be to feel the drops on my skin. I set my notebook aside...
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