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The Happiest Time of Life

Heart Shaped Tree

Who are the happiest people you know? If you think about it very long, you might conclude that an older person in your life is perhaps the happiest. Research has shown that the happiest people are generally older people and those in their 70s are the happiest of all. So What Makes Older People Happy? […]

The Future of Senior Living

Intersection of Old and Young

We’re getting older every day, and so is the rest of the world. By 2050, the percentage of the world’s people who are 60 or older will exceed the percentage who are younger than 15. That means we need to start thinking about how we are going to support an aging population as younger people […]

Often Forgotten: The Working Daughters

Young hand holding older person's hand

Society devotes substantial resources to helping working mothers find a work-life balance as they transition between their family obligations and the workforce. But what about the staggering 37 million unpaid eldercare providers in the United States, a majority of whom are women? When they transition into family caregiving — often whilst balancing work, children and […]

Moments that Last a Lifetime

Sunflower

We all have those special moments in our lives that we think back on. Some of these memories are of ordinary days and some are of a day that changed our lives forever. These are the thoughts that bring us through tough times. Even in our darkest moments, if we think about a certain experience […]

The Grace that Shines Through

Photo Credit: Children at the Weill public school in San Francisco pledge allegiance to the American flag in April 1942, prior to the internment of Japanese Americans. Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange(w). Public Domain.

February 19, 2017 was the 75th anniversary of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s executive order that put 120,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps. Most of them were citizens of our country. As the children of aging parents who have seen so much political unrest during their lifetime, we often don’t agree with their politics or their […]

If Tomorrow Never Comes

Sky, Tomorrow

None of us like to think about losing a loved one, especially a parent. Only those who have gone through it before can fathom what it’s like. I do know what it’s like to almost lose both my parents and that forced me to think about them being gone. For some reason when I was […]

Stories from the Front Porch

rocking chair on the porch

If the kitchen is the heart of the home, then porches of yesterday must have been the soul. It’s where babies were rocked, beans were snapped, fish tales were swapped and all the problems of the world were solved. Just thinking about a porch swing or some iron rocking chairs takes me back to my […]

Cluttering Collections v. The Horrors of Hoarding

Messy room

Well before Marie Kondo proselytized about the necessity of storing tee shirts in precise little rolls in her top-selling manifesto, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, a bounty of books had been published about the virtues of pruning possessions and neatening homes, complete with suggested systems for how […]

Velvet Hearts filled with Chocolate and Love

Valentine's Day Candy

Valentine’s Day meant a box filled with chocolates from the man who’ll always have my heart; and the candy store that is close to heaven. I think most of us have fond memories of a candy store. Most of my sweet confections came from the local variety store and I loved looking at all the […]