Dorothy's Blog - Aging Abundantly

11/6/2024 A Message for My Children & Grandchildren

In the darkness this morning, as I struggled to absorb what’s happened, I began writing to my children. What can I tell them? How can I give them hope, I thought. What do I believe? How will I get through? The following is what I sent to them and i…

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION – BOOK REVIEW

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION It’s no secret that I’m an avid non-fiction reader, and I love narrative non-fiction. I sometimes feel the need to apologize for this affliction to my fiction loving friends. While I understand the love of fiction, I’ve come to value real life stories in addition to the depth…

FINDING JOY AS WE AGE – A CHOICE

Many of us don’t believe we can find joy as we age. After all, we’ve spent a lifetime striving, achieving, overcoming, managing, and caring for others often beyond our limits. And now, the issues of aging threaten to take the last bit of life and joy from us. But the…

FINDING YOUR HAPPY PLACE

Happy place? I can already hear you rolling your eyes. Life is hard! How am I suppose to go about finding my happy place? Your just going to talk woo woo nonsense and I’m not having any of it. WAIT! Don’t go. Not just yet anyway. Happy place? I can…

BEES ~ What They Teach Us About Dying

Have you ever seen a bee resting on a flower in the evening? They are sometimes old bees, tired or unwell after a hard day’s work. Old bees don’t return to their hive at the end of the day. They spend the night on flowers, and if they have the…

MEDITATION, TECHNOLOGY & AGING ABUNDANTLY

I remember so clearly the mood of my teen years. Stepping off the school bus at fifteen and sixteen into the quiet of solitude of the two block walk to my house, I was buzzing inside with relationship challenges, academic anxieties, and a mix of exhaustion and deep fatigue. The…