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While cleaning our four-season porch recently, I moved the flower pots I’d brought in for winter. The mums had dried and withered, but fresh greenery sprouted in their place. Coleus...

Here we are in the dead of winter. Or as the poet Christina Rosetti called it, “the bleak midwinter… snow on snow on snow.” Those are the lyrics to a...

The Paul Bunyan Senior Activity Center has many events and needs volunteers who are flexible with their time and are eager to work. Dick Robinson is one of those volunteers...

There are at least two facts that apply to family caregivers. First, they are among the most caring and selfless people in today's world. Second, despite their intention to solely...

Some of you are concerned about the general level of knowledge in America. Here's an excerpt from an email from a frequent correspondent. I've edited it to protect her ID,...

Rex was my dog until I was 11 years old. He and I did many things together. We walked and talked. We sat and thought. We wrestled in the side...

Life brings many changes over time, and the longer we live, the more major new situations we find ourselves facing requiring us to make adjustments. We have just made a...

It all started with a dream and the desire to make life better for older adults. A group got together, armed with a can of glass wax, a ladder, brooms,...

Years ago, in my previous life as an employed person in St.

Rain pounded the windows. The wind bent huge oaks, pine and birch horizontal. The air cracked and popped, trees snapped and tumbled, and the lights went out. For several minutes...

Kathy Johnson and I met when we were 2 years old. In October 1941, we moved from Northfield to Tracy. Uncle Kenny was going to war in the Army Air...

In December I described a Thanksgiving drive to Cambridge and back. On March 21, I took the same route to Cambridge, staying with son Stuart and his wife, Carol, in...