Footlose Old-timer
I am not anti-social, but more often than not, I relish to be alone. While most people take being “alone” as solitude or loneliness, it is not. At least, it does not have the same negative connotation as its cousins. Being alone isn’t bad if it is a deliberate choice. On the other hand, it…
Elderly poverty – shocking but true!Do you know how it is to be broke? A few years after retirement, I was down on my luck. I mean really down. All my business ventures failed, my retirement pension was almost depleted and I still had two kids in college. It was horrible, to say the least,…
I am not a diabetic (knock on wood), but I am surrounded by people who are. My younger sister is a diabetic. So is my uncle, my best friend, a cousin and more than a couple of guys I play tennis with. A friend became blind in one eye due to diabetes and another had…
Let’s face it, at our age we have bouts of forgetfulness, i.e., misplaced keys, an acquaintance’s name, birthdays, anniversaries, phone numbers, etc., – things we ought not to forget, but do. We all have “Excuse me, what’s your name again?” episodes, don’t we? We can laugh at some of them but others are irritating and…