Reflections: Aging 48 Articles

by Dawn Hawkins

I have a history now. It's full of wonderful things and not so wonderful things. I am not as old as I hope to get before I die yet old enough to know the differences in the way I used to feel about things and how I feel ab...read more

by Janene Ryan

Today is my 30th birthday and I'm just realizing what that means. To some, it means getting themselves more established - in what ever they're already doing (i.e. career, family, finances, etc.) But for me it means somet...read more

by Lowell Frederick

Aging is a very interesting process. The thoughts that go through ones mind at different times in their life can be joyful and they can be scary. As a toddler age is insignificant. The older one gets, the more age plays...read more

by Gool Bugwadia

Now that I'm a grandma to four adorable grandkids, something has changed in the way I think and feel. As unlike in the past, I have learnt to accept aging as an integral natural phenomenon and have learnt to accept it grac...read more

by Carmen Deleon

Fake smiles, white walls and floors, cleaning supply odors, hard plastic chairs, and bingo boards is all there was that day. I looked around the room and saw the patchwork of wrinkles and white hair all over the room. I ...read more

by Sally O'Quinn

I turned 50 this year, so I figured this would be a good time to write something profound. You know, make some sage observations, evaluate my accomplishments thus far and measure myself against other icons reaching the hal...read more

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by Betty Jo Petty

Reflections on aging, now this is funny. Actually, most of the time I like to think I'm still 17, although I know I'm a little wrong there. Tomorrow, the first day of summer (hooray) is also my birthday. So this story i...read more

by R. W. Ley

Western culture has reached a point where it seems to be a crime for women to get older. Women are supposed to do everything humanly and surgically possible to maintain an illusion, and it is an illusion, of youth. Why? Wh...read more

by Jane Coryell

Being 50 I think I have finally arrived. I am "there", the place where my mother used to be. But, I feel so much younger. When I was a kid and my mom was this age, she was old. And I am not old. No, I'm sure of it. Being ...read more

by Kelly Steier

Growing older is necessary...growing up is not. I face the half decade point and yet in many ways I feel so much like that child, that youth, that teenager, that young adult who had so much time ahead of her. And while my ...read more

by BJ Wallace

Aging gracefully is a contradiction of terms. I have begun the aging, but the gracefully part eludes me. How graceful can a person be when they rise from a chair too quickly and their head starts swimming or their legs don...read more

by Patricia Sicilia

Women's Aging Issues: when Your Hairdresser and Gynecologist Retire I Trusted My Hairdresser and Gynecologist so Implicitly, They Know Things About Me that My Mother, Husband and the IRS Don't By Patricia Sicilia ...read more

by Renda Ashley

When did I become "M'am?" The first time the young man bagging my groceries at the grocery store called me that I turned to look behind me. Surely he wasn't talking to me! M'am was my English teacher, and she wasn't anywh...read more

by John Graham

My life is filled with my new daughters' lives. They are 18-months old and I am 75 years and more having had previous children who are now in their forties. It is amazing how demanding my present 18-month-old investiga...read more

by R. Colleen

My Mother Is Dying My mother is dying but I don't know why. She is tired, weak and frail. But she is not old. She has no energy, no appetite. Her favorite companion is the television. She watches old movies starrin...read more

by Cecile Manapat

ODE TO FIFTY When I celebrated my golden birthday recently, my sister-in-law texted her greetings and asked "How does it feel to be 50?" I texted her back: "At 50 there's a little sense of panic because there are more...read more

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by Patty Stultz

I don't want to look in the mirror anymore. My face and body are sagging. How could I pretend I am sexy anymore or is there a different definition for "middle-age sexiness"?. My husband says we are rotting and we should ...read more

by Fhaedra Wright

I'm interested in the subject of memory, how it works, how it doesn't, and why. I'm intrigued and fascinated by the subject of brain power or brain fitness. There's a process in writing workshops that I've worked with m...read more

by Mrs. Creativi-T

What is aging? Is it when you start to find gray hair in areas where there wasn't any? Or, is it when you find yourself in a place where you are like, "oh, my God! Do I really have to do this for the rest of my life?" ...read more

by D. Anderson

I am 36 now. I just had a birthday yesterday, June 23rd. And I am glad for it. Seriously, I am not one of those women who whine about getting older. I found my first gray hair before I was 30, and granted there are...read more