One of the things that go with the territory of being a published essayist or columnist is that you get called a lot of names by readers expressing their opinions of what you have written. Sometimes, you learn from them; others you simply shrug them off. But a couple of comments following a column I…
Standing in a cafeteria line at my 45th college reunion, the woman from the DePauw University class of ’58 asked of no one in particular, “When did I get old?” 50th College Reunion Evokes Memories, Melancholy Conversation stopped. My first thought: Since I’m from the class of ’57, I must be older than old. Geez!…
Folks here in Florida don’t know whether to laugh or be grossed out. A few weeks back, Orlando’s Channel 6 reported that sexually transmitted diseases among seniors are widespread at a Central Florida retirement community called The Villages. Viagra, a lack of sex education, and no pregnancy risk were blamed. A gynecologist interviewed by Local…
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW GOOD MOVIES? Take our movie trivia quiz for seniors! People must be sick of the two dumb thumbs stuck in the air by a pair of well-paid, commercially popular film reviewers. Anyway, everybody knows that if the films they’re talking about were any good, they’d have all four thumbs up,…
Even the benefits of Social Security, Medicare, and senior movie discounts fail to offset the urge to scream. I am 65 years old and I want to scream. Turning 65 years old is one of those life passages – like college hazing and infantry basic training – many men would rather avoid contemplating until it’s upon…
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