The dangerous delusion that you won’t age

December 3, 2025
aging
Friends are astonished that we have put a deposit down on a retirement community---even those our age. "Why are you doing that now?" they ask. "It's too early! You two are young!" We are 74 and 77. We are not young. We are aging. And it is not too early. "Why would you go into a...
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The one teacher

March 24, 2009
Her name was Alice Webster and she's the one teacher I'd like to get in touch with.I learned to write in high school journalism class. Her class. And everything I...
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Voids

March 24, 2009
I was going to post a photo of termite damage and then use it as a metaphor to wax eloqent. But the photos completely freaked me out.My thought is about voids. Termites...
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More poker stuff

March 24, 2009
I'm avoiding finishing up my tax planner. And avoiding making a decision about which company to use to eradicate my subterranean termites. Oh yeah. I got 'em. But at...
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Peeps.

March 24, 2009
At a strip club.No kidding.There are stranger people than I out there. People who actually set up this scene and photographed it.I continue to resist the urge to buy a...
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Pushing it

March 24, 2009
I was talking with a younger woman the other day about the very subject of aggression. Of pushing for closure of any kind just to eliminate ambiguity, whether it is in...
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Sometimes true, sometimes not

March 24, 2009
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Late breaking happy news

March 24, 2009
A former client and now a friend--a very cool (and strong) woman--had a prophylactic hysterectomy today. She's a breast cancer survivor whose family history was such...
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Worth remembering

March 24, 2009
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Yeah

March 23, 2009
That last post is wayy too depressing.Is there anything more springlike than fields of tulips?I don't believe there is. ...
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Out of my comfort zone

March 23, 2009
Anyone in my generation knows this photo, before it was "remixed" in PhotoShop by a far-out blogger. I thought it was so jarring it would be a suitable counterpoint to...
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