mortality

The Beginning of the End: When a Parent Starts to Fade

04.01.2009

It’s not an emergency, it’s not drastic or horrifying. But he’s slowing down, he’s hesitating, he’s struggling just a little as he tries to retrieve a name or a word he KNOWS he knows.

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Making every day count

08.14.2008

by Celeste Lindell of Average Jane Almost every day, my husband reminds me that I’m probably going to outlive him. He has reason to think so: he’s ten years older than I am, a diabetic with high blood pressure, and his family members have tended to die quite a bit younger than mine. It used [...]

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Taking the Leap – Into the Second Half

04.25.2008

I looked around the flower covered table at my “mommy” friends and I felt lucky. I have good friends, good family, and a good life yet there’s something missing… me. I spent much of today at a friend’s 50th birthday party: a beautiful luncheon in a gorgeous Beverly Hills hotel. Twenty-five or so women, most [...]

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