Senior Moments
Senior Stories

Having Senior Moments? Enjoy them

Had any “senior moments” lately? You know. You’ll be talking along like at any other time in your life, and suddenly you can’t remember the name of your best friend. Or the movie you saw last night. Or what the initials AARP stand for. It’s a sudden, embarrassing slice of silence. A senior moment. Remember…

Sex After Sixty
Romance

Sex After Sixty: Improve Your Memory

According to a recent scientific survey (Frequent Sex is Linked to Better Memory), the less sex you have, the worse your memory becomes. They also say that the human sex drive diminishes as we age. Would it be a surprise if fewer seniors are having sex after sixty? Maybe they just forgot? Let’s face it;…

Napping Without Guilt
Senior Stories

Napping Without Guilt: Healthy Napping

I SEE YOU YAWNING ALREADY! The napping codger is a cherished American cliché for useless and lazy old age. What a shame! For years, I resisted the temptation to sneak off to nap for a half hour or so. Not wanting to be senior before my time, I put napping up there with drinking before…

Life Lessons & How Tos

How to Write a Good Obituary That’s Memorable

I‘ve been reading the obituaries lately. Once you hit 70, it’s required. What strikes me is how they make the recently deceased so vanilla, so plain and soulless. Obituary writers must see this as a dull, dull world. Death of Common Sense: An Obituary Everyone dies. They leave loving husbands and wives and children and…

Last Oldsmobile
Nostalgia

Last Oldsmobile: Oldest Auto Brand Dies

Many of us lost a dear friend yesterday (April 29, 2004) as the final and last Oldsmobile rolled off the Lansing assembly line. The oldest automotive brand name in US history died at age 106. My grandfather owned our family’s first Olds, a 1941 two-door, two-tone with Hydra-Matic transmission. Grandpa had lost the use of…

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