Having multiple versions of a self is not necessarily a bad thing! (I’m not talking about Sybil and The Three Faces of Eve- multiple personality syndrome.) A recent book by Sherry Turkle, Alone Together, bemoans the “false selves” that young people project… Read More ›
Is 60+ too late to change your world view from glass half empty to glass half full? If you have been taught to see the world a certain way as a child, is it possible to radically alter your view? … Read More ›
I figure I’ve spent some of the best years of my life dusting the furniture. If hard pressed, I can hazily recall an occasion or two when I dusted behind the furniture or even under it. I use rags, towels, microfiber gloves, dust… Read More ›
We sixty somethings are reluctant to admit it but many of us don’t regularly share a bed with our partners. Some of us even sleep in separate rooms. Though there are certainly ghostly visitations, many partners have found that the quality of their… Read More ›
Peccadillos ahead! PECCADILLO: n pl -loes, -los a petty sin or trifling fault [from Spanish pecadillo, from pecado sin, from Latin peccātum, from peccāre to transgress] The word “peccadillo” was the answer on a Jeopardy question last night. I got… Read More ›
There are no good haunted houses around anymore; I’m thinking of old mansions, like Miss Havisham’s, with moldering curtains at the window, moth-eaten furniture, and old newspapers and pictures from another era strewn over the floors. There are, unfortunately,… Read More ›
Now we are Sixty 