Tag: growing older
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May 02, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
I just checked out a book from the library about what to do with the second half of your life. I got it out half heartedly thinking that I would just merely browse through it just in case in time . . . more
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January 21, 2007 10:09 AM EST --
I wrote an article last night about this growing older nonsense and I referenced (poorly) some of my favorite poetry and literature pertaining to being wistful of one's life growing shorter and not . . . more
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April 14, 2007 03:29 AM EDT --
Who do you see when you look in the mirror each morning? I ask this question because I’ve become keenly aware of the face staring back at me that I now recognize to be that of my father’s. . . . more
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July 27, 2006 12:57 AM EDT --
Oh, how I used to mourn for that young woman who weighed 112 and was a perfect 34-24-34. She had unlined skin, good vision, and light brown hair.
She knew everything there was to know. . . . more
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September 03, 2006 10:17 PM EDT --
Age has a way of sneaking up on you. One day you're 21 getting ready to graduate from college and the next you're 47 and playing with Barbie dolls with your six year old granddaughter. . . . more
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October 19, 2006 01:29 PM EDT --
Amazing how life catches up to you.
I look in the mirror and count the gray hairs;
I see the crow's feet under my eyes
and wonder where the time has gone;
Sometimes I long to . . . more
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December 26, 2007 05:19 PM EST --
Christmas has come and gone. It seems disapointing sometimes that such a long drawn out buildup takes place and then one day, and its gone. Maybe thats why I am Catholic, because for us, the twelve . . . more
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September 25, 2007 12:47 PM EDT --
I remember thinking, years ago, that when I retired I was going to play a lot more tennis. I'd always loved the game, and I knew exercise became even more important as you got older. What I didn't . . . more
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January 15, 2007 09:55 AM EST --
The female columnist is not identified, but the message is what is important)
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To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 50 lessons life taught . . . more
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July 07, 2006 12:06 AM EDT --
Sometimes the silence is deafening,
and I remember all of the times I prayed
for silence;
Those days of doors slamming
and little feet running through the house,
crying out for me, needing band-aids . . . more
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September 06, 2006 12:32 AM EDT --
Seasons come and go,
each with a beauty of their own,
bringing memories of youthful days,
flooding one's very soul.
Moonlight on pure white snow,
cheeks frozen in rosy splendor,
. . . more
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October 06, 2007 08:52 AM EDT --
Today is my birthday....I turned 38...Getting older doesn't bother me really..it's just a number....thanks to weight watchers i'm getting healthier all the time....i'm pretty content with . . . more
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June 20, 2008 01:27 PM EDT --
Well, the psychic in Gettysburg was correct. Smokey fought to the bitter end. The end came yesterday. I was really suprised he had lasted through this heat for as long as he did. . . . more
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September 06, 2006 03:34 PM EDT --
I'm forty? How is that possible?
My oldest biological child is 20. How in the world did that happen? It wasn't very long ago that he brought home a frog and left it in a bucket in the bathroom. . . . more
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September 18, 2007 11:45 PM EDT --
"What has happened to me?" She said softly to herself as she looked in the slightly warped mirror. Dreams something in her past. Reality a strange place to exist for someone of such a free spirit. . . . more
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May 31, 2006 03:39 AM EDT --
Little Big Time wasn't little but he was a little big time, depending on whom you asked. Dr. Haircut came by his hotel room early; they hung out for a little while, drinking beers, catching up--Dr. . . . more
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September 15, 2006 12:30 AM EDT --
I'm proud to announce that on September 15, 1956 a couple that were destined to be my parents were married in a Catholic church in an unassuming Midwestern town. They had met at a New Year's . . . more
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May 04, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
My husband and I will have been married for twenty-four years in October. If you equate one year of human marriage to dog years, (which it can seem like sometimes) that would make it 168 years total. Quite . . . more
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June 20, 2008 01:40 PM EDT --
Jim's terminal lung cancer had been diagnosed about two months prior to being admitted to Hospice. He was added to my case load upon his admission. Unbeknownst to me, my outlook on life, . . . more
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October 08, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
18 years ago today my nephew Michael was born....my birthday was just two days ago, so i've always told him he was the best birthday present I ever got..I still feel that way, even though he's . . . more
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