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My Eyes!
Advertisements are ubiquitous. I hate the intrusion, so I’ve trained my brain to filter them out. But occasionally I see one that pushes through the barrier. Somewhere, a marketing genius thought it would be ‘cool’…
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Kidney Beans
A few years ago, I developed a kidney stone. It started — or at least the pain started — while I was at the gym. I felt a niggling pain in my back like I’d…
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Same Old Snake Oil
As we age, our bodies change – typically, not for the better. Enzyme production slows, tendons tighten, muscles shrink, and our mobility and flexibility decrease. I try to keep up to date with the current…
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What happens when you get older?
I keep catching myself thinking like an old person. More than once, I’ve thought, “Perhaps we should go for dinner a bit earlier, you know, before the restaurant gets busy and the service gets slow.”…
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Old is the new not-so-old.
I’ve always had off-kilter ideas about aging. In high school, I said, “If I live to be old, I mean like old,like 40. I’ll start doing drugs. When you are that old, it doesn’t matter…
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Going with the flow
During the COVID lockdown, I spent a lot of time writing. It was either that or learning to bake sourdough bread, and the last thing I needed was more reason to eat while they gym…