Tag: Aging Well
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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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The Middle Age, at Last, and How I Knew
When I took a look at Aislinn’s 14th birthday pictures, taken at my mom’s kitchen table, I understood at last that I am now in the Middle Age. It’s not a year or span of years or any way society or a medical record might define it. It’s my own definition. From the Bookshelf Unapologetically…
