senior citizens | senior citizens
Jan.05.2013
Dear Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation:
On Sunday, December 2, 2012, I went through the security checkpoint at the airport in Richmond, Virginia. I am a handicapped 63-year-old woman professional writer and English professor with no criminal history. After I passed...
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Jul.19.2012
WARNING: There will be sex talk.
While having a conversation with someone I know from high school (I don't remember the topic at the time), he responded to my comment with, "I still get hard." I blushed (yes, I still do that), and a nervous laugh escaped my lips, and I was stymied for a response...
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Jun.08.2011
"Old" has more to do with the way a person acts, thinks and lives than with a number. Pay attention to the age labels you stick on yourself.
Seemingly small things can stack up against us and before you know it, we will be one of the "elderly" -- regardless of our age....
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Jun.06.2011
Like corroded clockwork, the Republicans once again find themselves in the middle of a public relations disaster the size of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. Specifically, their plan to reform Medicare, which some folks say is akin to a tornado's plan to reform trailer courts. Of course I'm...
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Apr.22.2010
Last Saturday, I had the honor and privilege of being the guest speaker at the Cloverdale Senior Center's Annual Literary Luncheon, in a small eponymous town in Northern California. I was speaking about the rural life chronicled in Accidental Cowgirl, about being a "ruralpolitan" before I...
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Sep.18.2009
Ron Wach has been hiking almost constantly for fifteen years--ever since he endured his third car accident while commuting to his job with a large pharmaceutical company in a big city. On that day, he was sitting still, stopped by traffic, when he was hit at 65mph by another car.
"That was it...
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May.18.2009
Despite my continued lack of diabetic test strips, this week is turning out well. A few days ago, I was tickled pink to discover that "Cryo Kid -- Drawing a New Map" has been awarded finalist status in the Indie Next Generation 2009 Book Awards. Then today I unexpectedly received a...
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