It’s funny how some bits of information can stick with you. Nine months ago, I read a post about the effects of loneliness. And I keep thinking about it. Researchers studied the impact of social isolation and unhappiness on older people. One of the findings was that loneliness ages you faster than smoking. Previous studies…
When I was a kid, I had a magic closet. New clothes (to me) would appear from time to time. I would open the closet door one day, and there’d be a shirt or a pair of pants that wasn’t there the day before. I never questioned it. I accepted that fact that new things…
Psst. Do you want to know how to add 7.5 years to your life? Quit smoking? Lower your blood pressure? Reduce your cholesterol? This one thing has a bigger impact on your life span than those other things. What is it? Having a positive attitude towards getting old. Having a positive mindset has as much…
I mentioned my daughter’s 30 by 30 list last week. And I was going to come up with my own list. My 30 by 65. Although, it would actually be my 30 by 66, since I’ll be 61 in a month. Let’s call it “My Five Year Plan.” Coming up with 30 things wasn’t as…
On the weekend, my daughter met up with a few of her friends and they all decided on their 30 by 30 lists. They’re 25 and it’s a list of thirty things that each one of them wants to get done by the time they turn 30. Kind of like a bucket list. But with…
I had no idea that singing was fun. It was scary to me. Something I wasn’t good at. I didn’t like going to Karaoke. The exposure was too great. The risk of failure guaranteed. I didn’t even sing in the shower. And yet tomorrow night, I start my third session with Vocal Point Choir in…
It’s been a tough week. Some friends have passed away. And some famous people have passed on, too. It felt like every day for the last week someone I knew or someone I knew of died. For some odd reason Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope is the thing with feathers” has popped into my head. If…
Four years ago, Deb and I put on a play at the Hamilton Fringe Festival. It’s called The Lost Years and it’s an affectionate look at our journey through parenthood. Recently, Deb suggested we should remount it online. It would be fun to put it on again. And it would give us something “theatrical” to…
“It’s the good advice, that you just didn’t take And who would’ve thought it figures?” Alanis Morrissette A year ago, my brother suggested that I make a Kindle version of my book Laund-o-mat at the End of the World. (The typo in the title is deliberate.) It’s a collection of three of my one-act…
It’s been almost 6 months since I reached my KFC Weight (200lbs) and I’m astounded that my average weight for the last 6 months has been 198.5lbs. Why astounded? I’ve been trying for years to get to that weight, but I barely came close in five years of trying. And now, I’ve been able to…
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