Category: Aging Well
Reflections on aging as something to do well rather than survive — what changes, what matures, what to release, and what becomes possible only after you’ve lived long enough to recognize patterns.
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Fairweather Friends and the People Who Need You Broken
We’re warned about fairweather friends early. But foul-weather friends — the ones who need you broken — are a far quieter and more corrosive kind of loss.
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Beyond Fixed Fates: What Turn of Earth Taught Me About Choice, Legacy, and Love
Turn of Earth wrestles with fixed fates, legacy, and love across time. Here’s what writing it taught me about choice, aging, and the stories we leave behind.
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Able-Bodied Is a Temporary State of Being
A friend once told me that able-bodied is a temporary state of being. I didn’t fully understand it then. I do now—and it changed how I see accessibility, empathy, and every assumption I’d quietly made about who gets to move through the world with ease.
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The Grief We Grow Old Enough to Understand
I didn’t understand the old woman’s words of wisdom then. They were something it took 50 years to grow into.
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Learner CliftonStrength
The Learner CliftonStrength thrives on growth—but what about unlearning? For those raised on ‘push through the pain,’ our aging bodies are now asking for a new kind of partnership. Here’s how to stop overriding what your body is trying to tell you.
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Still Walking, Thank You Very Much
A red hiking pole from the Camino de Santiago became my mother’s, then mine — and an unexpected conversation with a 90-year-old neighbor about why we refuse the cane.
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The Problem I Didn’t Know Was Mine
A rushed afternoon, a dangerous open water meter, and a small decision that wasn’t really my job. Sometimes the fix you make for someone else quietly circles back — landing exactly where you step at 2 AM in the dark. A reflection on doing the right thing before it becomes someone’s emergency.
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Good and Bad in the World
A walk to the post office, a shattered hubcap, an old man quietly cleaning up after rude boys, and a tip that was worth more than money. The good in the world shows up where you least expect it.
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Who’s Listening at the Airport?
From a facial recognition snafu at TSA to defense contractors talking too freely at the gate — a return trip from Colorado proves that privacy in public is mostly an illusion.
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ReVisiting the Soundtrack of Youth
“Do you remember when you were 18 and starting the next phase of your life?” a 50-year-old woman asked me. “What were your favorite songs that year?” I found myself smiling immediately. “Funkytown” wasn’t exactly ground-breaking, but it was #1 the night I graduated from high school. On the rare occasion I hear it now,…
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Healing the Broken Circle
When I was a little girl, the song I heard playing all the time in my home was Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Maybe it was a super popular song at the time, or maybe it was popular in my own home because it was so soothing to my mother in those fast months when…
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Haunted Houses and the Ghosts of Tampa
When I first moved into a remodeled 100-year-old bungalow in Tampa, I wondered if it was haunted. After all, that’s a long time, and I do believe in ghosts. It took a year and a half before “something happened.” I’ve seen a couple of ghosts over the years, plus two angels (that I know of),…
