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In reading others blogs I ran across one written recently by Dena Stewart. It mentioned that her birthday was on October 5. Her blog reminded me of one of the several musings I have written about birthdays (we seniors have lots of them). So as a Belated gift to Dena - and all others who have or are going to celebrate their birthday, I offer you the following musing that I wrote back in March...

Mystery on New Years Eve - Can you guess who did it? It was the day before Christmas...

if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. Apparently, there's not a lot of hand clapping going on. Have you been in a bookstore lately? The happiness industry is smiling from ear to ear. There's Stumbling on Happiness, The Secrets of Happiness....

I changed the name of my S.O.S blog to The Elder Generation. This is the first paragraph of the...

Something new I've taken on in the last few months is publishing a blog to share with the world....

I love to laugh. It's better than medicine, better than walking in the mall, and much better than booze 'cause I can do it yet stay in control. Every morning, the first thing I do is pour a cup of coffee and open the comics pages of the newspaper. I like "Zits," "Nate," and "Sally Forth," and sometimes "Doonesbury" just for a dash of silly sarcasm. Next, I read the "News of the...

Today, I made sure to break out the red and sparkly: Not only for me... Why red? Why today? To mark national Go Red For Women Day, organized by the American Heart Association.I have a personal connection to heart disease, which I'll detail in a moment. But ponder this: Heart disease is the #1 killer for women. More than 459,000 people in the United States...

Do you know how every once in a while you meet someone who's life force shines so bright you just want to be around them? You MUST meet Shelly Burch. Oh, sure... You might remember her as Delila, the popular femme-fatal from One Life To Live, and think that Shelly had an easy, no worries, TV star-type life....

Who hasn’t sat down on New Year’s Day and come up with changes—such as losing weight and exercising more—they’d like to make? Our good intentions, though, can pass as quickly as the weeks on the calendar. Before we know it, we’re facing yet another New Year with the same old list. As Oscar Wilde cynically points out, “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where...