I hope you had an enjoyable New Year’s Eve. Another year starts tomorrow. Make sure to savor every day, hour, and moment. Our human existence is an amazing thing. Every one of us is essential in order to succeed on this fantastic journey.
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Are you a senior with a question? We now have a free service on Pliny Lives. You can submit any question you wish to Pliny and he will do his best to answer. Your name and email will not be published. If Pliny cannot answer your question he will let you know. Answers can […]
I just started a page with information and links to low-cost or free snow removal for seniors. It is a work in progress and I will keep updating it. Click here to see the Snow Removal Seniors page
I couldn’t resist posting this. Something spectacular is happening right now and on Wednesday. A small spacecraft will attempt to land on a comet and we can watch it live. The mother spacecraft is called Rosetta. On Wednesday it will release a small lander called Philae and it will land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It is orbiting […]
The Home Instead Senior Care network has developed a guide to help families prepare for aging. The title refers to the idea that ideally when children are 40 years old and parents are 70 years old they should start to engage in dialogue to prepare an action plan for aging. Even if you aren’t currently in these […]
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Here is a nice article from More magazine: Secrets to Aging Gracefully (from Real Women Like You) Four successful women are interviewed and they mention some very good ideas related to aging.
Check out their eleven point prescription that is intended to help people prepare for old age: Ensuring you are ready for ageing? Eleven point prescription In case you wondering about the spelling of aging: In the U.S. and Canada the preferred spelling is “aging“. In England and Australia “ageing” is used.
This is a follow-up to an article that appeared in the New York Times, “When did we get so old?” by Michele Willins. I don’t why aging should be harder for baby boomers. Doesn’t every generation have its own challenges, in addition to the aspects of aging we all have in common? Is aging harder […]
After posting my rant in the previous post against the quest for immortality, guess what I read next? Biologists delay the aging process by ‘remote control’ Biologists at the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute found that when they activated a gene in the intestines or nervous systems of fruit flies the lifespan of the flies was extended […]