by Ruth Jackson | May 20, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
My husband and I bought a house in the year 2000. It faced the freeway. Other than that, I liked the house but I couldn’t see living right across from the freeway. Since my husband had already fallen in love with the shop behind the house, he said to me, “I will...
by Ed Parker | May 6, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
I am a 92-year-old competitive dragon-boat paddler living with my partner Anne Clark, 81, in a retirement community with a view of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Anne and I are members of the Portland Golden Dragons paddling team that practices on the river...
by Cami McLaren | Apr 22, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
When I was growing up, I loved language. I remember reading James Herriot and how beautifully he described the life of a veterinarian. And A Tale of Two Cities in the 9th grade launched my love of great literature. When I reached college, my love of writing and...
by Beth K. Tucker | Apr 8, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
Neighbors, friends, and even the mailman ask me why I’m traveling 9,260 miles from home this winter, enduring at least, if lucky, a 22-hour flight followed by a grueling five-hour car ride to travel the last 100 miles to the village where I stay in Bali,...
by Elinor Dempsey | Mar 25, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
My first thought as I awake each morning is often “I wonder how the surf is today?” At 45, I was late to start surfing but was hooked the moment I took my first wave. I feel lucky that I live in Los Osos on the Central California Coast, close to the ocean and just a...
by Cindy Rasicot | Mar 11, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
I did not move to Thailand in 2005 looking for a spiritual teacher. It simply happened. In the summer of 2005, my husband, 13-year-old son, and I relocated from our suburban home in Northern California to Bangkok for my husband’s job. Although excited to be living in...