by Suzanne Michalik | Dec 16, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
As I approached my 75th birthday one year ago, I started feeling ill at ease in the home I had loved for over 16 years. When I purchased it at 59, I’d wanted a large garden, a driveway and attached garage, plus a guest bedroom and second bath. But now, in some vague...
by Rand R. Timmerman | Dec 2, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
“I’m going to walk the Appalachian Trail!” my 70-year-old younger brother Ron announced in January 2018 while I was hiking with him on a trail outside of St. George Utah, where he had lived the last four decades “Since Edie died a few months ago I have...
by Barbara Berkeley, DC | Nov 18, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
Reflecting on aging is like turning the kaleidoscope a notch, where each turn reveals a different pattern. At the beginning of the pandemic, I decided to return to school at the age of 61 for a Master’s Degree in Public Health. In 2020 I was worried that if the...
by Ellen Schecter | Oct 28, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
It’s a beautiful morning in early September here in New Mexico. I’m on my road bike with members of my cycling group. Well, not with them, more like following them as they speed ahead of me. I try to keep their bright jerseys in sight. Our route is mostly flat, giving...
by Rita M. Gardner | Oct 14, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
I was already in my sixties when I first began to write my memoir The Coconut Latitudes. The last of my closest family members had died and I was just beginning to consider (and worry about) my own mind failing me as I aged, and whether our family story would die with...
by Carrie Moses | Oct 1, 2024 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
After losing my beloved husband of 65 years in 2016, I remained in our beautiful home overlooking Rose City Golf Course in Northeast Portland. Our six children, their spouses and children – and even their children – had loved this home for 31 years, too. Why leave,...
