Category: Aging Well
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Body Image: Are You a Temple or a Tool?
Photo by Howie Berlin Sitting outside my doctor’s lab and waiting my turn to “donate” blood, I was struck by a conversation I overheard in which the nurse explained that she’d seen everything and it was “all natural.” What bothered her patient about body image didn’t bother the nurse at all. She said that she…
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Enjoying My Flaws
Photo by true2source I have strawberries. There’s a medical term for it, but I don’t remember it. [added: cherry angioma] All I remember is that my lovers have always referred to them as “strawberries”—either with great fascination or great disdain and precious little in between. They’re tiny scarlet freckles, no larger than the size…