Your Next Third

I finally got around to reading Younger Next Year— a highly motivating book that explains that while we have to age we do not have to decay. I have to admit that I occasionally thought, “How far can I push this?” How long can I lead this sedentary life before I start to fall apart? […]

Beginning Again

Hey, remember how proud I was of passing the written driving exam in Italian? Turns out, that was the easy part.  We thought we’d sail through the practical portion.  What hubris. Like a lot of Americans, Michael and I learned to drive, and got our original licenses on cars with automatic transmissions. Many folks I […]

Brighter Days Ahead

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]Autumn has often been a difficult time for me. Living in New England with the beautiful colors didn’t help. As soon as the first swamp maple turned red in mid-August I’d get a stab of sadness as […]