/** Loop - Archive This is the loop logic used on all archive screens. * * To override this loop in a particular archive type (in all categories, for example), * duplicate the `archive.php` file and rename the duplicate to `category.php`. * In the code of `category.php`, change `get_template_part( 'loop', 'archive' );` to * `get_template_part( 'loop', 'category' );` and save the file. * * Create a duplicate of this file and rename it to `loop-category.php`. * Make any changes to this new file and they will be reflected on all your category screens. * * @package WooFramework * @subpackage Template */

On the Brink of Everything

By on October 19, 2018 in book club, conscious aging, disillusion, Fierce with Reality, forgiveness, illusion, life purpose, milestone birthday, mortality, Mystical experience, Older, physical loss, Spiritual evolution, wisdom, Wiser Fiercer

Ten years ago, at the age of 63 when I was fraught with the challenges of growing old in our ageist, dysfunctional society, I vowed to transform myself from victim to explorer.  I viewed the far side of midlife as wild territory, full of dangerous unknowns, and saw that my mission as an adult development […]


Feel free to share this providing proper credit to Carol Orsborn
and a link to CarolOrsborn.com.

Comments { 0 }

Seventy is Different*

By on April 16, 2018 in acceptance, Beauty, Blog, Cohort, conscious aging, Fierce with Reality, Gratitude, grieving, life purpose, marginalization, milestone birthday, mortality, mothers, Older, physical loss, relationships, Spiritual evolution, wisdom, women

Seventy is different than the sixties. How do I know?  Because just two months ago, at the tender age of 69, the outcome I’m about to describe would have been very different.  And the young nursing student who had been eavesdropping on my conversation with old friends at lunch may have been scarred for life.  […]


Feel free to share this providing proper credit to Carol Orsborn
and a link to CarolOrsborn.com.

Comments { 0 }

Growing Through Life Together

By on March 6, 2018 in Blog, Gratitude, life purpose, love, milestone birthday, relationships

For Dan on His Birthday My husband Dan and I have been together since we were twenty-one.  That’s a lot of years and a lot of growing through life side by side. We have stood together through all manner of life stage, from building careers, raising children and welcoming grandchildren, to growing older side by […]


Feel free to share this providing proper credit to Carol Orsborn
and a link to CarolOrsborn.com.

Comments { 0 }

Beside the Point

By on February 15, 2018 in acceptance, Blog, feminism, legacy, life purpose, love, milestone birthday, mortality, mothers, Older, relationships, service, Spiritual evolution, wisdom, Wiser Fiercer, women

The gang from Zumba class were trying out a new restaurant for my seventieth birthday. Service was slow and we were overly hungry.  It was a spectacularly unlucky case of timing that just when I finally decided to start unwrapping my birthday presents, the long-absent waiter suddenly showed up with the overdue food.   Already committed […]


Feel free to share this providing proper credit to Carol Orsborn
and a link to CarolOrsborn.com.

Comments { 0 }