My All-Season Body

Outliving bikini season angst This weekend, I was reminded to be grateful for a gift from the aging process. Like many of its gifts, it takes an adjustment in my perspective to appreciate, but once I do, boy howdy.  Get Your Summer Body Here! I spotted these words on the marquee of a med spa. My…

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Welcome to Clickbait Air

A polite rant about a budget airline Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels Let me be clear: I am not dumping on all commercial air travel In fact, I’m a fan. Whenever I look out an airplane window and see clouds dancing below me, I marvel. Here I am, sitting in a chair 30,000 feet in…

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The GOP Has a Woman Problem

But there’s an easy answer! Think back to January, 2023 It was a honeymoon idyll for the American patriarchy. A time of Republican triumph.  With the corpse of Roe v Wade barely cold, the side effects of its demise hadn’t had time to reach the mainstream media. No mouthy woman OBGYN had yet popped off about…

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I Want to Die of Boredom

Wait — allow me to explain Long enough ago that there’s no point in trying to recall the details, I was watching a PBS British drama set between the wars. In one scene, a gentleman, still dapper in late age, settles into a garden chaise lounge and accepts a cup of tea but declines an…

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I Said Yes to the Dress

And now I’m in existential freefall I’m not getting married; my son is His bride is lovely, kind, gracious, intelligent, and a self-made entrepreneur who works like a demon but makes it look easy. For all her drive and achievement, she is easy-going and fun to be with.  She has excellent taste in everything. Naturally,…

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Haiku With Poo

My Dog and I Share the Same Path But Not the Same Goals A walk with my dog:I seek oneness with natureShe seeks a buffet My dog eats green grassCow-like; long blades that get stuckI’ll spare you the rest My dog and I spotA fluffy little vole! SheEats it in one bite Deer have wandered…

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Democracy Won’t Save Itself

It needs elders in the fight We have a gut-level understanding of what’s at stake Here’s what I see on the Zoom call as I prepare to do phone banking: A grid of faces, each in their little rectangles, all earnestly staring into their laptops and trying to figure out whether or not they’re on…

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What If You Were Wrongly Imprisoned?

Meet the podcast guest who might be your best hope I’m privileged to be one of the rotating hosts on the Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age podcast — a show that considers the journey through life from a range of perspectives. All of us are aging, and if we’re lucky we get to do…

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That Time My Husband Found Me On The Bathroom Floor

Here’s what the designers of the Alzheimer’s study didn’t think about Content warning: curse words (justified, but still) I’m not normally given to crying fits I mean, they happen, but it takes a lot. So when my husband returned home from running errands and found me slumped against the bathtub, my eyes swollen and red,…

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