
This month, four things ended in my life at the same time. I turned 70. I worked my last full-time day as a clinical pharmacist after 40 years. My aunt moved into assisted living. And the season turne...
Mornings got harder. Afternoons got heavier. Bedtime started feeling like a lifetime away, even on nights with nowhere to be. Nothing about my schedule had changed, so I went looking for the reason, t...
I tell people my real age to their face, on purpose. Almost every time, the first thing they say is, "No, you're not." That reaction is not about me. It's about what a number does to you the moment no...
Two people caught it before Diana did. A massage therapist, mid-treatment for a frozen shoulder, had her look in a mirror: one shoulder was sitting an inch higher than the other. Weeks later, a ballet...