My best old ladies have (or had) a good sense of humor. And no wonder. Laughter is healthy at any age. But when you’re ninety and beyond, being able to “make light” is a survival tactic. Whenever I tell 101-year-old Marge she’s my role model, she laughs. “I don’t have much competition!” My first real […]
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The Suprising Secret of Good Geezerhood
This just in…. forget what the AARP and the Harvard Health Newsletter tell you. Forget doing crossword puzzles or learning a foreign language. Instead, keep doing what you’ve always done. I learned this from my neighbor and friend, Marge. She’s 101½ and lives alone. How does she manage? “I keep breathing.” But it’s more than […]
Books
This is my official “books” page. Although I hope you like my writing and are curious enough to actually buy one of my books, I can’t blame you for thinking long and hard about it. I do, too. I read fewer books, and read increasingly on screens. But I always have books waiting to be […]
Here’s One You Won’t Want To Miss: Rest in Peace, Shirley Zussman
Getting to Know the Old Lady Who Got Away How Shirley’s Life Ends, and This Story Begins My friend, Margaret, sent me Shirley Zussman’s obituary, published in New York Times Legends. (I’ve copied it below, broken into paragraphs to make it easier to read.) Margaret knows I seek out old ladies — and Shirley was certainly something! […]
Stealing Words Is a Still a Crime: How To Show That We Care
No one knows who wrote the humorous gem that I copied below, but 105,000 people want to make themselves look good by posting it. Yesterday, I received a forwarded email that was sent to Rhoda who, in turn, emailed it to me — you know, the kind that starts with a dare… If you read […]