“Great-grandma,” the girl asked with wide eyes, “what’s it like to be old?”
Her great-grandmother simply smiled and asked, “what’s it like to be young?”
Continue readinggrowing old
Every Year a Feather
Every year we earn a feather.
Every ten years our feathers weigh a pound.
At age 10, our 1 pound of feathers are weighty but we have enough energy we don’t notice.
Continue readingWhen reality of it all settles in and stinks
In 1985, I went to the movie house with my friends and watched The Goonies. Actually, I’m just assuming I did because I’m from a small town and on Friday nights my friends and I were usually either at the Family Recreation Center or we were at the movies. I don’t actually remember my first time watching The Goonies. It has become one of those I have watched so much that I can’t really remember a time before I knew Mikey and the gang. I will say that from the first watch I felt like an honorary Goonie. Thankfully, it wasn’t until many years later that I discovered otherwise.
Continue readingYou won’t win
Remember this beauty tag line from the 80’s?
”I don’t intend to grow old gracefully. I intend to fight it every step of the way.”
Continue readingThe moment
Will you take care of me
when I’m old and gray –
when my get up and go
has completely gone away?
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