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Aging in place has its definite advantages. It grants seniors more specialized care and privacy than might an institutional setting. However, it also brings a tough question in its wake. ...

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A Desk Of My Own05/13/12

 

I received an unexpected gift this Mothers Day. It was delivered from my past and came wrapped in a twenty year old quilted lavender bedspread. It was packed up in ...

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This Mother’s Day I’ll once again be reminded that I’m a lucky woman. Not everything in my life has gone smoothly – just like everyone else in the world – ...

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I finally broke down and bought a Kindle but I held out for as long as I could. For more than a year, I watched my husband read from the glow ...

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Aging at home has become a buzz word. And that is understandable because this arrangement has strong selling points: Elders receive personalized attention. However, unless it isnn accomplished by careful ...

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I remember standing in my kitchen, some 15 yrs ago, staring out the window and saying out loud to no one in particular, “ there’s got to be a better ...

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Every time I log onto Facebook, I see something about so-and-so getting pregnant. I’m only 20 years old and most of these people graduated around the same year I did. ...

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Every generation asks, “What is wrong with kids these days?” As a young girl I’ve often heard older people say.  Now that I’ve earned that right, I understand what they ...

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There was a great piece in the Huffington Post about why your child didn’t get into the college of their dreams. I read it with an enormous sense of relief ...

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When I was young, I just assumed that I would grow up, meet someone special, fall in love, get married, and have children – in that order. Truthfully, though, I ...

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