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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Joy at Retirement—Dismay at the Aging Process
By Frances Kolarek — My friend Marion recently celebrated her 90th birthday — a big deal, a big day with two separate parties — one with family, one with friends.…
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Impacting Survival!
By Frances Kolarek — ”I am not aware of any other factor in medicine that has a greater impact on survival than the healing power of love and intimacy. Not…
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Laughter, the Best Medicine — Redux
By Frances Kolarek — I know how to pick up on cues. First, along comes a full page in the Mayo Clinic Health Letter about laughter and its benefits. Right…
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New Habits
By Frances Kolarek — Vincent Dreary understands how hard it can be to shuck old habits and acquire new ones. “Change hurts,” he admits in his book How We Are.…
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Aging in Place
By Frances Kolarek — Aging in place is a concept coming up for a harder look. “We tend to think of aging in place as staying where we lived during…
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Hearing About A New Broader View of Family — See a Great Plan B Photo at the Bottom
By Richard Zorza — Professor Ertman of the University of Maryland Law School spoke at Collington a few nights ago. She is author of Love’s Promises: How Formal and Informal Contracts…
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Mishearings
By Frances Kolarek — I am deaf. And it’s a huge pain in the neck. And that other four-letter place. My hero, Oliver Sacks, wrote recently in The New York…
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