Prostate Blues
A humorous, good-natured song on the woes many older men suffer because of an enlarged prostate gland.
View ArticleWho’s Worth It? – Deciding Who to Spend Our Time With During the Apocalypse
During these dark times, one has to keep focused on who really matters. Let us who you're holing up with right now.
View ArticleWinter Dawn
In this remarkable piece called “Winter Dawn,” Tu Fu captures a moment of flashing epiphany with language, so simple, that speaks from another plain and another time, decades earlier, about the swift...
View ArticleWhen Did You Become Invisible?
At a certain age you become invisible, your mojo springs a leak, that sexual scat you give off lessens, that lust the opposite sex felt for you begins to dissipate and turns into something else your...
View ArticleArtists in Later Life, Part 2: Updike Inspired, Too
Not everyone loses their creativity at an old age.
View ArticleYouth and Age –“Never Worry About Your Heart Until It Stops Beating”
Here is a poem by E.B. White, in which he frames the profound difference between the mysteries of youth and the virtually impossible cross currents that old folks must swim through. Namely, we who are...
View ArticleThe Winter of a Healthy Old Age
Old age is not always a portrait of decrepitude and a signal of imminent death. Ishmael’s description of Father Mapple in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is in my mind the most celebratory depiction of...
View ArticleEncounters in a Wintry City
Though Leonard Quart expresses disdain for the infirmities of old age, his determination to march on and prosper -- in spite of the time of year and of life -- show us the way forward. Don't die till...
View Article“This is All I Ask”
“As I approach the prime of my life, I find I have the time of my life, learning to enjoy at my leisure all the simple pleasures...”
View ArticleThe Look & Feel of Age
The special regard in which the community holds its elders sometimes feels a little patronizing.
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