“Aging and its evidence remain life’s most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.” Joan Didion, Blue Nights My wife and I have grown quite comfortable in discussing death—both in the abstract and in our particular cases. I highly recommend the advantages of becoming conversant about death. It’s going […]
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This post is by my wife, Susan Haworth, from her blog at CambiosCoaching.com I recently had dinner with someone twenty years my junior who used the phrase senior moment to describe an incident where her memory failed her. This is a phrase I don’t use so I was both amused and annoyed that someone […]
My wife and recently returned from a road-trip to our former hometown where several of the people we visited were our age or older (we are both in our 70’s). We both noted afterwards how frequently we heard our friends say something like, “Our children think we are too old to do such and such, […]
Do You Lie About Alcohol? At my annual physical for many years I had essentially the same conversation about alcohol with my doctor. Doctor: Steve, how much alcohol would you say you drink? Steve: [pause] Oh maybe 2-3 drinks a day, 4-5 days a week. Doctor: You really should consider cutting that back some. Steve: […]
May 12, 2021. Exactly two months ago I quit drinking (alcohol, if it needs to be specified). More on my decision to quit drinking and how I went about doing it (after listening to Annie Grace in a podcast, and reading her book, This Naked Mind)will be grist for my next post. Here I’ll summarize […]
March 5, 2021. Alameda, CA. As we baby boomers age, it is time for us to equip ourselves to deal with death. We have all experienced death in one form or another–parents and other relatives, friends, associates, famous people….and pets. My wife and I marked the second anniversary of our dear pet Yoko’s death today. […]
I am not the only elder baby boomer to attempt to do some writing at this stage of my life. I assume I am also not the first to discover the dastardly impact of “writer’s block.” I have started three separate posts since my last published piece nearly 6 months ago. In no case did […]
It’s been nearly a month since my last post. Did you miss me? I suppose I could say I was side-tracked by the continuing pandemic, the racial and political mayhem encircling us, or the calamitous outbreak of wildfires in our neighborhood here in the Bay Area of Northern California. But none of that would be […]
For eliminating the scourges of racism, misogyny, nationalism and materialism, and for making our institutions of governance, education, the economy, and religion fundamentally more beneficial to the public: MEN, STEP DOWN! Thought Experiment Albert Einstein unraveled the theory of relativity as a brilliant thought experiment, not experimentally in a high-tech lab utilizing the scientific method. […]
On July 17, the US lost Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), one of the real giants in the American Civil Rights Movement for 60 years. As a young man, Lewis stood fiercely at the fulcrum of the strife between those demanding equal rights for all Americans and those who fought tooth and nail to preserve a […]