Embrace Your Aging

My friend told me that she recently had a death dinner! A Death Dinner! Her idea was to invite friends over to talk about how they want to die. The amazing thing is that she had eight friends willing to join her in a conversation that NO ONE wants to have. Yet, it is a conversation that we all need to be starting, whether we are a healthy 60 year- old, a disabled 70 year -old, a terminally ill 80 year- old, or a frail 90 year -old. Death can be around the corner for any of u

It’s the little things that count. So often we focus on the hard things going on in or lives, the tough things, and we forget about the good. My husband is a great one for seeing the positive side, for assuming the best in people. He just sat on the phone for hours waiting to talk with a Delta customer service representative in hopes of receiving a refund from his cancelled flight to New York because of the flu. I was sure it was wasted energy. Sure enough! She gave him a vou

My husband has the flu. Every night I watched the news and learned about those people in those other states who were running to those big white tents filled with doctors and nurses to be checked out for the flu. That was in Kansas or California, not here in Florida. Then it hit Florida. The news anchor detailed the tragedies of the ten year -old who went to school one day and was dead the next and the mother who was sent home from the hospital, only to die in her own bed. The