A woman emailed to say that knowing I am in my late 80s, she admired my energy.  Admittedly, I like to keep busy, but I don’t always excel at what I do. I’m bad with computers.  I find them either unreliable or inscrutable, which is my way of saying  I’m slow to learn their w

While researching material for an earlier blog, I came across an interesting statement about aging. …every decade after our fortieth birthday, our brains spend more time contemplating our own thoughts versus taking in information from the external environment. (Successful Aging by D

I’m going to tell a story with a moral.  An old man once traveled to Saudi Arabia to plead for oil from the reigning prince.  The prince, a man of middle years, enjoyed wielding power, and so he took delight in waving the old man away, certain he had humiliated his visitor. As the

A writer near my age admitted on Facebook that though she loved the feel of paper between her fingers and the smell of a new book, she’d shifted to an e-reader. No longer comfortable with small print, she needed an electronic device to adjust for size.    Much in life is a tradeof