Holding Onto Joy

Old age allows time to seek joy and bask in it.

Spring Joy, with help

Our senior community is part of a 500-acre campus, with woodlands and mature, planned landscaping interspersed with meadows, blueberry patches and lawns. It is absolutely stunning in the spring, as…

A couple of months ago, I really looked at our 20-year old dinner plates. The lovely purple iris on the old Corelle plates had mostly faded away, with just a…

The beauty of relationships in transition

Lately, I've been pondering on the challenges of living with an ill or dying partner. It's one thing for a healthy young couple to commit to "in sickness and in…

Uncharted Waters
Letting go of Life
Holding on to Joy

Married female, mother of two, grandmother of five. Living in a senior living community, where dinner, house maintenance, and continuing care are part of the contract. Residents in this community are actively engaged in our lifestyle here; I currently help produce Zoom programs, and help edit our webpage. Physically "healthy for your age" despite shortness of breath, two knee replacements, a cardiac murmur, various skin issues and an incipient back problem.