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aging

ORGAN RECITAL: a listing of one’s ailments in response to a question of health

April 25, 2013

I’m going to break all kinds of precedence today. It is not my pattern, in writing this blog, to copy someone else’s work.  I try very hard to give proper reference to materials, but I also try to use discretion in waiting an appropriate amount of time before employing a post idea. Today, however, I [...]

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LIGHT POLLUTION: the over-abundance of artificial light in our culture

January 7, 2013

When I was a kid I could stand in the backyard of my home and watch the Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis, with no difficulty.  The lights danced in the sky in a variety of colors and it was more exciting than watching Robert Montgomery Presents on our one television station. The light show originated [...]

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OVERBEARING: dominating or dictatorial

July 26, 2012

This shouldn’t be a long posting today.  I doubt that there are many people “out there” who can’t identify with this term, overbearing.  It has to do with someone being overwhelmingly “on top of you” in the sense of being dictatorial, relentless, and generally a pain in the neck.  Is there anybody who has never [...]

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IRASCIBLE: angers easily

May 9, 2012

This word, irascible, is one which describes someone who has no control over anger.   It fumes from them at the slightest provocation. Strangely, it is a word which is somewhat reserved for older men, and there is a somewhat condoning character to its use.    It isn’t at all uncommon for someone to describe their aging [...]

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SANDWICH GENERATION: middle agers caught between caring for children as well as elderly parents

March 20, 2012

This may not be a new term to you, but sandwich generation is a term which needs to be lifted up every now and then just to remember what some people are experiencing.  It is a term which became popular in the 1980 era, which refers to the dual-care role played by many Americans these [...]

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SENIOR MOMENT: when an otherwise-familiar word or name escapes you

November 11, 2011

Appropriately designated as a characteristic of aging, senior moment is a term that enters into one’s life more and more as the years pile up.  You don’t have to be elderly to have a brain freeze moment; it can happen to anyone.  But it sure seems to be more and more frequent as the hair [...]

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AFFINAGE: the craft of adding flavor to cheese

October 23, 2011

Cheese has always been a significant part of my diet.   My father introduced me to various forms of “bleu cheese,” allowing me to become a lover of strongly-flavored, smelly cheeses at an early age.   We sometimes took a “Sunday drive” to a place in the Mohawk Valley of NY State (a couple of hours away) [...]

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BLUE HAIR: a pejorative comment about an older woman

October 16, 2011

When I was a child my grandmother would send me to Grants Department Store to get a bottle of “bluing” rinse.   It was a rinse that grey- or white-haired women used to give a little color and life to their hair.   It was applied after washing the hair.  She would let it set in for [...]

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CLEW: a ball of yarn

March 14, 2011

I mentioned in a previous posting that I am reading The Lake of Dreams, the new novel by my friend, Kim Edwards.  Her novel is laced with very powerful theological  references, reflecting Kim’s own spiritual journey, I suspect. At one point she references the labyrinth, a spiritual exercise of ancient Greece, but dating back numerous [...]

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SEPTUAGENARIAN: a person who is between 70-79 years old

November 11, 2010

I thought it would be more painful than it was.  On Monday I celebrated my 70th birthday.  Apart from an awakening jolt, when I said to myself, “Oh my God, I’m 70 today!” it was a perfectly normal day. I’ve told you before that I go to LaSalle Bakery every morning for a cup of [...]

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