Exercise — All Kinds
By Frances Kolarek — The gyms that thrive today under the patronage of our Boomers are a far cry from the exercise rooms provided by fancy European spas in the…
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Staying Happy
By Frances Kolarek — Exercising our brains, our bodies and maintaining social ties will help us stay happy. The Brain Game Once upon a time we sharpened our wits with…
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Just wait until 75 — and then really, really start to enjoy life
By Frances Kolarek — One of the things I hope to accomplish by this blog is to reassure those in terror of aging that life in the upper years can…
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Happy
By Frances Kolarek — Happiness is not getting what you want, but wanting what you have. “It seems ridiculous to say that the happiest year of my life took place…
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Surprise, Boomers!!
By Frances Kolarek — You are old? Had you expected to be old? Since we have no choice, we must, in Twelfth Step verbiage, accept the things we cannot change.…
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A Celebration of Age—Choose to be happy
By Frances Kolarek — The mystery is: Why do we read so little about the up side of age. Oliver Sacks has done us all a huge favor with his…
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Briefly I Really Was the National Poster Child for Aging!
By Richard Zorza — Yes, really, for a short time, if you went to the National Institute on Aging website, you got so see a photo of me in front…
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