by Michael Fitzgerald | Apr 5, 2023 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
When I hit 55, I did a mathematical calculation about how many months, weeks and days I had in my life until I turned 75. That’s roughly 240 months, 1,042 weeks or 7,300 days, in case you wondered. Seventy-five years old! From the perspective of a 55-year-old, that...
by Joan Virginia Allen | Mar 23, 2023 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
What do Grandma Moses and I have in common? We both chose to create something new in our lives and in the world that didn’t exist before. We did this when people might have considered us “old.” We were both 78. That is the age when Grandma Moses began her life as a...
by Maxine Rose Schur | Mar 8, 2023 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
Every ten years or so, I find myself watching Mick Jagger fling himself across the stage like a possessed puppet. With wild-eyed ferocity, he postures and prances in the spastic style he alone owns — a style still so vital it’s a mind boggle that he’s been doing...
by Bonnie Scott | Feb 21, 2023 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
At 63 years old, I retired and relocated from California to Oregon with my husband, who was soon to retire. This would be the city we both live in for the rest of our lives and we would be closer to our daughter. And then the COVID pandemic began in earnest. Our move...
by Willis Allen | Feb 9, 2023 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
I feel like I beat the odds when I hiked the Mist Trail up Vernal and Nevada Falls in Yosemite National Park May 20, 2022. The odds? I figured the odds were against me because of my age – 86. I had had a total right hip replacement in October 2020. And I had not...
by Katherine Hough | Jan 12, 2023 | Dynamic Aging, Magazine
In January of 2023, I will make 74 years young and my 10th year involved in the dragon boat community. But I wasn’t athletic until the age of 63. I was the oldest of eight kids growing up and I had a lot of responsibilities put on me, so playing sports was out of the...