Woodside Story: Advice for oldsters
I don’t know if most of the elderly around me are as spacy as I. I’m spacy AF, but I need to add that I’ve always been that way, so it may not be...
Woodside Story: Romance among the elderly
Let me get this uncomfortable thought out of the way: Death plays a big part in any so-called “happily married” couple making it over the 65-plus finish line. And let me just add that...
Woodside Story: Celestial enlightenment?
Sometimes astrology can give us fresh answers for why everything is running amok. It’s def amok, right? And so we’d like to know what the heck is happening. And here’s the Big Data from...
Woodside Story: Losing folks
This is that sad, sad aspect of getting old that you frankly thought, in your younger, daydreamy years, would never catch up with you. But all your older relatives couldn’t stop talking about it....
Woodside Story: Ya feelin’ it yet?
We’ve all come up with different phrases for it: “the beginning of the end”; “the last chapter.”
Here we all are in our “sunset years.” These adages hardly summon our “golden years.” We are elderly,...
Woodside Story: No more hating
Yeah, the two sides of our country’s political struggles find each other, truly, revolting. But this is just the nauseating view developed from watching the news, something some of us have tried to avoid....
Woodside Story: Pass the readers
I’m here to tell you that some of us still enjoy reading.
All the same, as a lifelong reader, writer, and bookstore owner (Sun Porch Books in Oak Bluffs, 2002 to 2008), I can’t believe...
Woodside Story: The joy of pets
For those of us seniors who love animals — seemingly loving them beyond life itself (come on, admit it, it’s that meaningful) — figuring out a way to make our last chapter desirable can...
Woodside Story: The boogeyman of old age
It probably wouldn’t matter to us if the only downside to elderliness was, well, to put it bluntly, looking crappy. We do endure that awful specter; crepey skin, gray hair standing in tufts on...
Woodside Story: Ancestors
So your mother was an opera singer who married an American G.I., and yet continued to keep her bonds with her arty and famous family members in Milan? And, get this: During World War...
Woodside Story: Strength training
It’s not just kids who dream about being superheroes. I’m thinking everybody at every age would like to be stronger. Tougher. When I was a wee one back in the 1950s, I adored the...
Woodside Story: No need to panic
We think we prepare for being old — or, to use a more shuddery word, elderly — but we don’t, do we? We back away, don’t we?
And then suddenly we have to face the...