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Mobility and Independence

By Frances Kolarek — My best wishes for the New Year to all who are kind enough to read my blog. Apologies for the hiatus. Here goes with a new…

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Ken Lee on 'Retirement But Only of Sorts'

By Collingtonian Ken Lee — I write to my younger friends out there in The World, from my comfortable setting here in a somewhat grandly titled Collington Episcopal Life Care…

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The 90s

By Frances Kolarek — I got so much feedback from my belch at AARP for not paying more attention to the 90s age group, I realized I better put up…

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Enhancing Cognitive Prowess

By Frances Kolarek — Old songs, old favorites, we sing them over and over. And here I go again, because Richard A. Friedman, a widely published professor of clinical psychology…

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Collington Residents Association Website Now Up

The Collington Residents Association Website is now officially launched at http://www.collingtonresidents.org.   The site includes access to many materials useful to our community, such as the Courier, the Resident Manual, maps,…

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Continuing Care

By Frances Kolarek —  Feeling under the weather last month, I straggled into our Clinic and said, “I’m sick.” I was escorted into a private examining room where a nurse…

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Independent Living — You Can’t Beat It!

By Frances Kolarek — “Over-caring for a child is bad for the child, but over-caring for an elderly parent is not bad for the parent. Being overly vigilant may not…

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A Pet Peeve: 'Sexperts'

By Frances Kolarek — One of my pet peeves is the young author who sits down to his computer and grinds out a book about aging, what it’s like, how…

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A Loss of Laughter

By Frances Kolarek — For years, Gloria Ericson supplied her fans here at Collington with columns about problems we encounter in our daily lives that brought us gales of laughter.…

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