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• Remembering to Forget; Forgetting to Remember

  By 70-and-rising on March 1, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  You can’t pick up a magazine or view an online site these days without coming across some article or blog bemoaning the memory blips that plague the lives of 60 somethings. Recently I laughed over an essay called “Speak Memory”… Read More ›

• Blogs, Attempts, and Montaigne

  By 70-and-rising on February 24, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Whenever an artist is interviewed, he or she speaks about “influencers,” those whose work not only inspired but also laid the groundwork for the artist’s own work. Bloggers may not realize or acknowledge it, but they have been influenced by… Read More ›

• Getting it right the third time

  By 70-and-rising on February 19, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  There was a time, not so long ago when only movie stars had multiple marriages. Growing up, I knew only one adult who had been married twice, let alone three or more times. Yet here I am a sixty something… Read More ›

• That Old Guy? He’s Retired Now, Right?

  By 70-and-rising on February 9, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  I’m not a big Jay Leno fan but I was infuriated by chief NY Times critic, Alessandra Stanley’s, insultingly dismissive remarks about Leno’s farewell show featured in the Feb. 8 edition of The Times. When Stanley writes  that Leno’s  “last hurrah… Read More ›

• Lessons from Groundhog Day

  By 70-and-rising on February 3, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Sad to say that two days ago Punxsutawney Phil came out of his burrow, saw his shadow, and forecast six more weeks of winter. So it’s no surprise that the weather today is filled with what weather folks call a… Read More ›

• Taking a Break

  By 70-and-rising on December 23, 2013

  

  This is my 140th Blog entry for Now We Are Sixty. I started this enterprise in September of 2009 with the idea of using this Blog as a platform to assess life as it strikes me as I proceed through… Read More ›

• The Waiting Game

  By 70-and-rising on December 18, 2013

  

  As usual, I picked the wrong time of day to shop and the wrong line to wait in (or “on,” if you’re from NY) at the grocery store. The line crawled. The woman in front of me had lots of… Read More ›

• Snow Daze

  By 70-and-rising on December 11, 2013

  

  One of the benefits of retirement is that impending snow storms are of little consequence to me. I don’t have to fixate on road conditions, check my weather app for updates, take part in the weather-chain, or leave extra time… Read More ›

• Dementia Adventure

  By 70-and-rising on December 4, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  Yesterday my 94 year old mother let me know that she will be married next week to Shawn, her 32 year old nurse at the nursing home where she lives. She asked for my thoughts on what shoes she should… Read More ›

• The Glamour of Thanksgiving

  By 70-and-rising on November 27, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Thanksgiving was my favorite holiday as a child. It was always shared with my father’s brother’s family and sometimes assorted other uncles and aunts (whose relationship to me was somewhat murky), friends of the family, and cousins, lots of cousins…. Read More ›