The dangerous delusion that you won’t age

December 3, 2025
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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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A Big Day

February 27, 2009
As I anticipated the end of 2008, I knew the new year would involve the start of Life 2.0, but I hadn't anticipated everything that it would entail. And how important...
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Report from the Ring

February 27, 2009
Ok, so we weren't really in the ring. Not the actual ring with ropes, just the on-the-floor training ring. The one with bags.Before boxing class, the girl at the front...
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Boxing for Girly-Girls

February 26, 2009
This is my idea of what boxing for girls is like. We'd wear sexy silk boxing robes and pink gloves. Makeup and hair in place. My trainer thinks I should start boxing at...
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"Botox Party this Weekend"

February 26, 2009
On the road this morning, I saw a sign: Botox Party this Weekend."Hmm. Botox PARTY??? No.A gathering during which someone would take a long needle and inject a...
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Not a bad thing

February 26, 2009
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Atlantis

February 26, 2009
Such a pretty old...
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There’s no success like failure..

February 26, 2009
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Food, glorious food!

February 25, 2009
Don't ask me why, I'm not even hungry. But I've been scanning some fabulous recipe entries posted by foodie bloggers in and around Italia.What a luxury to have the time...
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Pressure Performer

February 25, 2009
It doesn't take courage to dream.It takes courage to follow them.I just read that, and I believe it. I've had any number of dreams over the years, but never stepped out...
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If we couldn’t laugh…

February 25, 2009
Yesterday's over my shoulderSo I can't look back for too longThere's just too much to see waiting in front of me...Who couldn't love the irrepressible Jimmy Buffett?...
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