Carol's Reflections

Aging an Apprenticeship

The March Selection of the Sage-ing Book Club, previewed below, will be Nan Narboe’s Aging—An Apprenticeship. The 2017 classic provides us with a front row seat to essays about aging by Ellen Gilchrist, Judy Blume, Frederick Buechner, Ram Dass, Gloria Steinem and 50 other writers coming to terms with the

The Grace in Aging

Getting lost in your emotional reactivity isn’t where you want to be. –Ram Dass I want to apologize, right off the bat, for all those years and years of lunches, phone conversations and long walks in parks together in which I complained endlessly about my mother. When she passed, my

Journal of a Solitude

Ask me about the meaning of life, and I’ll have tons to say. Ask me if I’ve come to terms with mortality, and you’ll get a thoughtful answer complete with sub-texts. But the other day, someone asked me something that left me speechless. “Are you happy?” I wish I could

From Peter Pan to Sergeant Pepper: Revisiting 1969

Hello Fierce Ones! My blog today is an excerpt from the recently published Are You Still Listening? 1969 Stories & Essays by eight of us who were witnesses to this transformative year and who survived to tell the tale. Below is an excerpt of my contribution to the book. To

The Force of Character

Thanksgiving week: turkey in a bubble, loved ones on Zoom and despite hope for the future, still having to turn the news off most of the time. And yet, there is so much to be grateful for. Of course, there are friends and family, a roof over our heads and