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• Old self/new self

  By 70-and-rising on February 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Map of the world

  By 70-and-rising on February 19, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Dust to dust

  By 70-and-rising on February 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• To sleep, perchance to dream

  By 70-and-rising on February 12, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Small sins and misdemeanors

  By 70-and-rising on February 7, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• They are all gone away…

  By 70-and-rising on February 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

    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 ›

• Hic et Nunc (Here and Now)

  By 70-and-rising on January 28, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Wherein the author disses Latin.

• Poetry and the top of my head

  By 70-and-rising on January 25, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  I am very picky about poetry. Sentimental, forced rhyme annoys me. Abstruse poetry bores me.  I’m too lazy to work hard to extract meaning.  My poems of choice must surprise me; at least  a line or two  should provoke me to think,… Read More ›

• Confessions of a book junkie

  By 70-and-rising on January 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  I buy books, I read books, I hoard books. I like their smell, their feel, their look and the promise of wisdom locked inside.  I like new books, in particular, with hard, matte covers and book jackets with pictures of… Read More ›

• January’s Big “D’s”

  By 70-and-rising on January 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

    It is January – cold, stripped-down, battened-down January. Not a lot to look at outside my window: the trees are brooms. The roofs are crusted with dirty snow and a gaggle of dingy grackles.   Grit from sand and salt coats the… Read More ›