Mind Over Matter

When the day is fine, and you hate it to end, don’t you wish you could exert mind over matter, and extend it a few more hours?  Or when your energy is spent, and pain defines your limits, and you feel time is running out – don’t you wish for a way out?  Now, I [...]

Modesty

One thing about getting older is you go to the doctor’s more often.  Another thing about getting older is doctors want to examine places that you’ve tried to keep hidden all your life.  So far, I’ve been lucky, and all my surgeries have been out-patient procedures, but I’ve seen the generation ahead of me spend [...]

Did AARP Rip Off My Old Mother?

    I don’t mean to knock AARP, an organization that helps us all as we get older, but I have to question their efforts to promote the sale of long term healthcare insurance. My mother died recently, and the experience was a great learning one for me in many ways. Getting old and dying involves a [...]

Who Is In Control Here?

    I am reminded of the classic sci-fi novel Mindswap by Robert Sheckley where the main character, Marvin Flynn mind travels to alien worlds and ends up in a body of a giant beetle like creature who has a snout ring with a bomb in it. “On Celsus V, the giving and receiving of gifts is [...]