I don't know about you, but I've received more jokes, cartoons, videos, and links during the last six weeks than in the past six years. ...

Here comes the gray, marching along, pulverizing any shades of red or brown in its way. I'm doing all I can to sweep my hair one way or...

We've all seen the Before and After photos of famous actors and actresses. But it's an uncommon sight to watch some of the news anchors,...

The prospect of my husband cutting my hair during this pandemic is downright frightening.

It's been a rough couple of weeks. But all is not doom and gloom.

The yellow light on the lid of my vacuum cleaner warned me that it was time to change the bag. I had a new box of bags in the basement...

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

This was Mexico at its best.

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

This isn't the first time it has happened. In truth, it happens all the time. I'm in a group, say, at a concert or a play and look...

I'm a political junkie.

For those who don't speak a word of Yddish, a kvetch is a big-time complainer. My paternal grandparents spoke Yiddish when they didn't...

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

Whenever I wanted feedback on a piece of my writing, I would call my mother. She listened patiently as I read, sometimes stumbling over...

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

I could never be a guest on HGTV, even if the Property Brothers or Chip and Joanna offered to build the house of my dreams.

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!" ...

Don't get excited: I'm not talking about trained therapists with all kinds of degrees who charge enormous sums for a 45-to-60 minute...