Listen to my interview with author and activist Ashton Applewhite, which will be available on February 2. You'll get a handle on why...

I know. Going back to your childhood home or the home you visited when you were on vacation from college or back before you got your own pl

"Home Town" calms me like a glass of hot milk before bed and reminds me of better times when political rancor and greed didn't dominate our

It arrived amidst all the junk mail--the catalogs I never ordered, postcards from AARP, announcements about new senior communities in my...

The older we get, the harder it is to learn a new language.

If we can't laugh about aging, we're in deep sh___. "Your Immortality Application" (The New Yorker, October 28, 2019) by Cora Frazier...

Amidst all the hoopla about the advantages of aging (self-confidence, experience, even power--badges that I have touted at length in this bl

10 Steps to Save Your Sanity in 2020

How often have you heard someone say, "You're only as old as you feel?" Is there some truth to that philosophy?

Maybe as a two-year-old, I drove my parents crazy and set a record for the number of times I asserted my independence and screamed "No!" ...

If you go to the refrigerator and forget why you were there--not a big deal. But if you make the same trip and forget what a refrigerator i

I walked into the dressing room at TJMax yesterday afternoon in search of one or two new sweaters to replace several in my closet that...

People is not where I'd look to find the secret to aging. Actually, I'm not sure where I'd look but definitely not in the gossip rag...

I hadn't seen my sister in two years--two years until last week. She lives in Ohio; I live in Illinois. It's a six-hour drive, if not...

Ruth, the second youngest of six children, was born in 1897 in Sault St. Marie, Michigan. She was forty-eight by the time I arrived less...

Yep, talking about boobs and annual mammograms. Today was this year's screening. I've had two scares: one about 25 years ago when we...

Okay, so it's dreary. No sun. Good possibility of rain. BUT, I don't have to wear a coat or a jacket to venture outside. My garden,...

There was no violence at Woodstock. No fighting, no attacks, no killing. (There was, if I recall, some bad acid.) It was a celebration of

An expert on skin care I am not. Like most older women, I've tried a smorgasbord of products over the years. Expensive moisturizers,...

Yep. That's right: we get to bitch and moan about our aches and pains, our bodies--even our partners. We have 60 seconds. Then time is...