grow older better

Category: Aging

  • Look at my mail!

    good grief!

    When you get "old" and are near a birthday –  this is the kind of mail you get

    cremation anyone?

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Making it flowery probably got some guru big bucks!

    It's an offer to learn about cremation services and letting me know all the advantages of this service.

    YUCK!!

  • I’ve been negligent

    In my push to finish my parenting e-book I have neglected my blogs.  I had set some posts to go on auto but the WP update I had done would not allow anything scheduled to post and did not send me my backups either!

    I need to do some major cut and paste and I will – just not today 🙂

    Happy New Year and just think – the e-book on aging is next on my list!!

     

    It's going to be a super 2010 for all of us!!

     

  • The “fat and uglies”

    I had a good friend, sadly one who died 2 years ago, who would say she was having "one of those fat and ugly" days.  She was neither fat nor ugly – but I knew what she meant – [after all we were both psychologists.]

    Thought of her the other day – probably as I have an old medicine bottle she once gave me and I was dusting it…

    For old medicine bottlethose who like old bottles – here are two photos:  It was from a physician's home/office on Beacon Street in Boston.


     

     

    It's 2010 – a new year, a new decade and the year I turn 70.  Lately I've begun to think I am having some of those "fat and ugly" days;  but sometimes mine feel more like "old and cranky." 

    The time period between Thanksgiving and my birthday is always a not-so-good-time for me as it's usually cold, dark, wet or snowy [or all of the above] depending on where I have lived.  And it's a time for self-reflecting for all sorts of reasons – new year, new age, holidays, etc.

    With several friends having died in the last few years, I have that mixed brain of being glad I am still here and then quickly wondering if I'll ever finish all the projects I started in the last few years.

    This is one of those paradoxes of human development.  Being happy and sad at the same moment for the very same reason.

    But then Janus – for whom January is named – looked forward and backwards at the same time so I guess I can do that too.  Sad about who died and what did not get done; happy that I am still here and able to write.

    Happy 2010!!

    P.S. The parenting e-book is nearing completion and yes I did start the e-book on aging. 

    [I was told a second e-book is quicker to do than the first so the aging book should be a piece of cake so to speak.]

     

     

     

  • Seniors Needing Soup Kitchens: An American Disgrace

    [This was previously published on http://lynnsrants.com but it needs to be here as well.]

    Thanks to the wonderful previous administration the ongoing economic woes here in the USA, we, in a country of used-to-be plenty,  are now forcing our senior citizens into soup kitchens.

     

     

    The number of seniors living alone who seek help from food pantries in the U.S. increased 81 percent to 408,000 in 2008, compared to 225,000 in 2006, according to the U.S.D.A……

    The New York City Coalition Against Hunger released a report on the city's soup kitchens and food pantries that found that 68 percent of responding agencies were seeing an increase in senior citizens. Hunger Solutions Minnesota said this month that food-shelf visits from older people increased 26 percent in the first half of this year, compared to the same period in 2008.  Seniors and Soup Kitchens

    And some who were once volunteers at the soup kitchens are now clients at those same places.

    With no increase in Social Security in 2010 and with the mess of Wall Street still lingering, I expect the statistics will increase over the coming year.  Yes we all got a more than average increase in social security last year but that has already been eaten up by normal costs – the prices of lots of things went up a larger percentage than the social security amount.

    Shame on us! 

    If you have family eating at soup kitchens or in lines to get surplus food – please please help them.  Like all living creatures, seniors need good nutrition – and maybe they need good nutrients more than others.

    And if oyu know of a senior wanting or needing to supplement their income as well as their diet, I associate with a company that provides nutritious supplements and has a plan that can help increase one's income. 

    Help a senior today – spread the word about this…  learn more at being healthy.

  • Older and not liking colder

    I used to LOVE winter – snow, sledding, ice forts and snowball fights, ice skating on the street, river or a pond, skiing in 40 below temperatures [before wind chill] but now I don't want to be outside in the cold.

    Partly this is due to a few too many bouts of frost bite on the finger tips but now I am thinking it's also due at least a bit to aging.  Cold ain't so much fun anymore.

    I am sitting here in extremely cold for us Portland wishing I had gone to Florida with a friend for a month…then I'd be warm there and return here after the arctic bast goes away.

    cats and cold weather

    But here I am, not enjoying the cold this winter, and neither are my neighbors or my pets.  I  know that when it gets back into the 40's during the day and above freezing at night – I'll feel better….and in the interim all I can say is YUCK!

    winter water safety "pee-er"

    [Sheba in front of the heater]

     

    And to keep the moorage water system from freezing like it did last winter – some have new pee-ers

     

    Your comments?  Anyone over 60 enjoying arctic blasts or nasty cold? 

    What is the difference for you?  

    Thank you in advance for commenting…..