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The Grace in Aging

By on March 9, 2019 in 2019 blog, acceptance, book club, Cohort, conscious aging, dark side, forgiveness, Gratitude, grieving, illusion, meditation, mortality, mothers, Older, Poems, relationships, shadows, Spiritual evolution, wisdom, women

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 bouncing ball of litanies, mostly […]


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From Peter Pan to Sergeant Pepper: Revisiting 1969

By on January 29, 2019 in 2019 blog, Blog, Cohort, disillusion, Fierce with Reality, legacy, life purpose

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 preview another excerpt to be […]


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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.  […]


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Fierce with Age Cohort: Let’s Talk about August Digest

By on August 3, 2014 in Cohort, Digest

Hi All, Back from sabbatical…and feeling renewed! As you might expect, I often have a “personal favorite” embedded in every issue of the Digest.  In case you missed it, here it is! Now, what’s on your mind?  What would you like to talk about? Carol:) _______________________________________________________________________ “I RESIGN” Dear God, This letter is to inform […]


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Fierce with Age Cohort: Let’s Talk about the July Digest

By on June 26, 2014 in Blog, Cohort, Digest, Spiritual evolution, wisdom

Hello again to all of us who are becoming fierce with age! Our numbers are growing, and this week, I was able to put faces to 28 names who had all manner of adventure making their way to the Scarritt Bennett Retreat Center in Nashville.  As promised, I am providing a place for us to […]


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