memories – Uncharted Waters

The Silence of the Season

Tonight is Christmas Eve and there is only silence in our home. As is true for many seniors, we are outside the hubbub of the holiday itself. Our children are…

Gemini created image 4/3/2025

Overwhelmed with Paper Memories

Gemini created image 4/3/2025 Most senior citizens live with huge stacks of paper memories: books, letters, writings, and photos. Some of it is stuff we inherited from ancestors who hoped…

Tossing out the fantasies

We first snorkled more than 50 years ago in a sheltered cove in the Virgin Islands and snorkled in the Caribbean on vacations for years after that. My first snorkeling…

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.