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(Note to readers: I am fully aware the purpose of Growing Bolder – as you move along in life, get out there and enjoy it. However, in spite of that, not everyone is going to jump out of a plane or go snorkeling in some exotic bay. For many getting it’s a matter of adjusting to a new phase in life. Here is one senior’s take on it.) So you are going along, busily living life, enjoying...

It's difficult to forget just how old I am. As if those annual reminders called birthdays aren't enough, every time I turn around there is another reminder. Hardly a day goes by that I'm not reminded that I've racked up over seven decades of living. When people talk about presidents, they talk about FDR, Truman and Ike like they were in office about the same century as George Washington. The...

One of the regular columnists in the Daytona Beach News-Journal wrote a column a while back about how much he likes hats - he really likes hats. The problem, he says, is that his daughter tells him he looks old when he wears a hat. That is an opinion people hear time and again. You look old wearing that, listening to that, doing that. What's amusing to this senior is that when you reach my...

In talking to a few friends around my age, the subject turned to possessions, specifically our possessions. Having broken through the glass ceiling of seventy, you might correctly guess that a few of the items we own are rather old. More so, some of our possessions were given to us by our parents which adds a couple of decades to the age of those items. You might call them antiques...

In talking to a few friends around my age, the subject turned to possessions, specifically our possessions. Having broken through the glass ceiling of seventy, you might correctly guess that a few of the items we own are rather old. More so, some of our possessions were given to us by our parents which adds a couple of decades to the age of those items. You might call them antiques...

Although my memory doesn't serve me as well as it did 10 or 20 years ago, there are still things that I recall from my childhood. That was back when I was a pre-teen. I can clearly recall living in a small Italian community in a small town in Northeast Pennsylvania. During that period in my life, I can't ever recall not being surrounded by immediate family, extended family, and family and...

I was tandem tasking as I often do. I was working on my laptop and watching a TV show my wife had recorded and was watching. It was Harry's Law; the episode was Old Men Rule. One of the show's subplots had to do with an elderly man's layoff from a job he had satisfactorily worked at for 46 years. The owner had to downsize and picked him. The elderly man, although not in dire financial...

Reader's note: Although I wrote this a few years ago, it seemed appropriate to include it here in Growing Bolder.The Gerontology Research Group estimates that there are over 250,000 centenarians (100 years old or older) in the world today. Other reports put this number at 450,000. Whatever the number, it is estimated that the US has approximately 55,000 of them. They also reported that there...

I'm not an avid user of Facebook but I do have both a personal account and a "john latenightmusings" account there. Because my use is occasional I'm not an expert when it comes to the various features the site has, and I don't have much interest in most of them. However, one of the features I enjoy is the alerts for friends' birthdays. Assuming the friend has entered their birth date, Facebook...