I’m driving along I-5, heading north toward Portland. My two adorable grandsons, 7 and 10, are fighting over something in the backseat of the car. “Please keep your hands to yourselves,” I tell them. The next thing I know water bottles are flying around my head. I see blood in…
In the early decades of my life, I believed older people must envy my youth. My smooth skin. My strong muscles. My abundant energy. My dreams. Call it the hubris of young ignorance, but I was sure the best part of life had to…
While many of you will sit around a table with family members on November 22nd, Ed and I will continue a tradition we began a few years ago. Here’s what we did last year: It was 92 degrees in Tucson that day. We sat at one of about a dozen…
“Ed brought me roses today for no reason,” I say, still feeling the warmth that spread through my chest when my husband handed me the bouquet earlier in the day. Donna rolls her eyes. “Which wine shall we order?” she asks, looking around the table. There are five of us…
On a stormy early October evening in 1962, as thunder and lightning tore across the skies over downtown Asunción, Paraguay, we fought our way onto one of the crowded buses on the Avenida Mariscal López. Our church choir was headed to the soccer stadium, where the Billy Graham…
Before I began practicing tai chi four years ago, I thought it was a Chinese martial art form from thousands of years ago, shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Now it has become part of my daily routine. And I’m excited to share it with you. Numerous research studies have conclusively…