Sales representatives at the various senior living communities mentioned that transportation for errands or medical visits could be provided. I paid little attention. Unlike the characters in the movie Trains, Planes, and Automobiles who had no ride, we had our own transportation. We were bringing our cars. Oh yeah, I had that all figured out. […]
Today a woman somewhere is laughing, weeping, grieving, or celebrating. Someone is giving birth; someone is losing a loved one to death. Relationships are forming, others are ending. For some, this will be an ordinary day filled with many of the same activities as yesterday. For others, something unexpected will suddenly make this day unforgettable, one that they may tell their children and grandchildren about in the future. In the same way that we are curious about how our grandmothers lived, future generations will be interested in learning about what an ordinary day was like in our lives.
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One Woman's Day
May 11 – How Deep is the Ocean
Dipping a toe into the ocean of prices, room dimensions, and meal plans wasn’t going to be the solution to selecting a retirement community. Those things are important, but there was something else, something unmeasurable. Personality. Each retirement community had its own personality. I needed to dive into the deep water of community personality. Would […]
May 8 – Echo
I opened the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the scissors, the darning egg, the pins and pincushion, and spools of thread. I gazed at the metal spool-shaped bobbins remembering how, as a small child, I flushed them down the toilet creating quite a ruckus. I fingered the […]
April 17 – Driving Force
Even the blooming crabapple and pear trees did not prevent my noticing there were no car garages at the retirement community we were circling for the first time. At our house, I had never taken our garage for granted. I loved the multiple shelves for garden supplies. I loved that it was only steps outside […]
April 10 – Ten Minutes
In an attempt to unwind, I recently watched a movie I thought would be light entertainment before I went to sleep. I was wrong. The overarching theme of the movie was: If you were given the opportunity to know that you would die in ten minutes, what would you have left to say to someone? […]
April 5 – Every Year on Passover
A few minutes into the journey when the train makes a sharp turn and enters the mountain ravine, I am ready. My face pressed to the window, I follow the brook running from one side of the tracks to the other. Maybe, this time, I will see them. Emek Refaim. The valley of the giants. […]
