Napping Without Guilt
Senior Stories

Napping Without Guilt: Healthy Napping

I SEE YOU YAWNING ALREADY! The napping codger is a cherished American cliché for useless and lazy old age. What a shame! For years, I resisted the temptation to sneak off to nap for a half hour or so. Not wanting to be senior before my time, I put napping up there with drinking before…

Life Lessons & How Tos

Everything I Need to Know, I Learned From Noah’s Ark

One: Don’t miss the boat. Two: Remember that we are all in the same boat. Three: Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark. Death of Common Sense: An Obituary Four: Stay fit. When you’re 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big. Five: Don’t listen to critics; just…

Life Lessons & How Tos

How to Write a Good Obituary That’s Memorable

I‘ve been reading the obituaries lately. Once you hit 70, it’s required. What strikes me is how they make the recently deceased so vanilla, so plain and soulless. Obituary writers must see this as a dull, dull world. Death of Common Sense: An Obituary Everyone dies. They leave loving husbands and wives and children and…

Last Oldsmobile
Nostalgia

Last Oldsmobile: Oldest Auto Brand Dies

Many of us lost a dear friend yesterday (April 29, 2004) as the final and last Oldsmobile rolled off the Lansing assembly line. The oldest automotive brand name in US history died at age 106. My grandfather owned our family’s first Olds, a 1941 two-door, two-tone with Hydra-Matic transmission. Grandpa had lost the use of…

Senior woman being kissed
Romance

In Praise of Older Women: What Women Really Want (Like Duh!)

One of the perks of dufferdom is an increased capacity to appreciate people. This article is in praise of older women especially. However, I also appreciate friends, spouses, and, for me, women. All women. Andy Rooney’s article on “In Praise of Older Women” When I was 20, I had eyes only for girls my age….

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