It’s okay to let bucket lists go with no regrets. A few days ago, I wrote an article: Getting Ready for a Hiking Adventure In My Seventies. I was planning to climb Mt La Conte in Tennessee for a second time. It didn’t happen. What did happen was that I…

How could I forget to use an everyday item? Last night I was sitting watching TV with my husband — our regular activity after a full day. About 10 PM, I usually start to get ready for bed. The first thing I do is take out my upper denture. Without…

“It has to be fun” was my motto for almost fifteen years. — I retired from a career in accounting at age 52. I had come into an inheritance and said farewell to numbers, spreadsheets and deadlines. No longer did I have to bring work home or dread Mondays. I always wanted to start my own pet sitting business, so I looked into…

I want this changed if I get hit by a Mack truck tomorrow The last time we updated our wills was almost twenty years ago. It needs updating, to put it mildly. We owned a home in Florida back then, and out of the kindness of our hearts (yes, we…

Do other senior couples do the same thing? When I married my husband, we hung out with friends. We all had sailboats, so on the weekends we would be out on the bay sailing and then barbeque at someone’s house afterward. This went on for a year or so until…

You can walk away from Debbie Downer. — A friend of mine used to walk with me on group hikes. As we walked, different people would stop by to chat. Some were pleasant and brightened your day, but there were always the ones who, within five minutes, you would know their entire life. “I’ve been married for 40…

I’m looking forward to it and being tremor free. I made an appointment in December to meet with my neurosurgeon this month. I went to see her on January 16th. I was hoping she would have an opening for surgery by March, but I am okay with it in early…

Putting my writing on hold can get frustrating. I fantasize about finding a cabin on Walden Pond and becoming a reclusive writer like Henry David Thoreau. He lived in his simplistic cabin there for two years and two months to escape over-civilization. He wouldn’t do very well today if he…

My heart and bladder don’t like big surprises anymore — Crow's Feet-Writing Prompt #24 Surprises with Aging No handbook told me life would be this way as I got older. I knew I would lose an inch or two but never realized how different the world looks when you’ve got people’s butts at your eye level. As I get further into my 70s, there are things that…