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MODERN ELDER SHINES A LIGHT

May 2, 2021 by

The modern elder moves the life needle from aging to ageless. Experience makes the difference. They are flesh and blood resources doing what reference books have done to navigate an uncertain future. By the way, an uncertain future is what we all have in store. What is the best approach?

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OLD AGE SCREAMS, “GIVE ME MY REVERENCE”

April 28, 2021 by

Old age in many cultures bring celebrations and reverence. Why? If you rack up enough years and you’re the last one standing, you are an automatic authority on the era you lived through. Pretty easy stuff so far. Too easy? Unless you get old in America. Then it’s a different story. There’s a deflection point […]

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SOFT AMERICA FLUFFS HISTORY AND LIKES IT LIKE THAT

November 4, 2020 by

What turns hard America to soft America? It starts with a poor role model for hard America, when a soft man portrays a tough guy. An aging man can be a comfort when they share the wisdom of experience, when they show up on time and ready to go, when they take their age into […]

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GROWING OLDER WITH A SECOND EMOTION

October 26, 2020 by

No one cures aging; growing older is not a disease. Instead of seeing it as a problem to challenge your mental health, flip the idea of growing older into an opportunity: You are older today than you’ve ever been. What makes it different than yesterday? A week older, a month older, a year older? What […]

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GROWING OLDER LIKE CHEESE, WINE, AND MILLENNIALS

August 13, 2020 by

Growing older is a common lament for all generations. The silliest complaints come from the youths. Who are these youths? Anyone younger than the one complaining about growing older. Since I’m sixty-five and don’t complain, let’s look at those who do. Ready?

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AGING PARENT PROTESTS GETTING OLD

July 22, 2020 by

An aging parent is the hardest part for kids growing up. We like them in their prime years, when they could do anything, and did. The part the kids never understand is how long we get to be an aging parent.

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AGING GRACEFULLY? WHAT ARE THE OTHER OPTIONS

July 10, 2020 by

Freud’s Couch Aging gracefully can be a goal. If nothing else, it’s a check-in moment you do for yourself. Some check-in from the couch, some from the bench in a weight room, some not at all. At least that’s what they say. Ask someone their age. If they make a big show out of remembering […]

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HOW SPORTS LIFE GUIDES REAL LIFE

May 22, 2019 by

Sports life not about winning and losing, but how you play the game? Real life says sports life isn’t an accurate reflection, that winning is the reason, the only reason, to do anything. People in the winning camp like to say winners do what losers won’t do. They’re not wrong, they just don’t know what […]

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GYM RAT EXPLAINED PERSONAL MOTIVATION

May 1, 2019 by

I asked a gym rat man the only question that matters: “What keeps you going?” At least that’s what I meant to ask when I said, “What keeps you from folding, from locking your door, closing the curtains, having food delivered, give up your car, and just shut it the hell down?” This was a […]

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BABY BOOMER ALERT: YOU’RE OLD AND YOU CAN’T HIDE IT ANYMORE

February 3, 2019 by

A question for readers in the baby boomer demographic: when did you realize you can’t hide your age? Was it when you first made a skin tent on the back of your hand? The first dark spot that looked just like the one you remember on your grandma’s arm? When you noticed something going on […]

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