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• Are You Sleeping Now That You’re a Senior?

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  Posted on 12 April 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Patience Required: Retirement Home Ahead

  Think you’ve got unlimited patience? Come and spend a day here. Stand behind a 95 year old woman who is shakily serving herself a cup of coffee from a vending... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• How to Become an Old Master While You’re Still Here

  It goes without saying that you have to be old. You used your seat belt and you declined invitations to go sky diving and finally, or as close to final as you... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Your Golden Years Have Arrived

  The thing about old age is that there is no practice period, no seminars and nowhere where you can learn the ropes in advance. You can’t even practice for it.... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dog Attacks Senior; Owner Bites Savior; Senior Accused of Indifference

  It happened this morning. Our Senior citizen is ambling along, breathing in the spring air laced with the perfume of flowering shrubs and with nothing particula... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• From One Retirement Home to Another

  Going out from the retirement home to see a movie set in another retirement home sounds rather ridiculous, doesn’t it? But it wasn’t. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• A New Perspective on Age at the Retirement Home

  A couple in our retirement home celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary yesterday and changed all perceptions of old age – and of long marriages. The husband... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• How Long Do I Have To Wait For Old Age To Start?

  When do Golden Agers move into Old Agers? I’ve been here in the retirement home for just over a year and so far I have met very few proper old people. It is tru... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Senior’s Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Fall

  Of all the bad things a Senior can do, falling is about the worst. Your immediate and most important objective at this stage in your life is to stay on your... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Week of Snow in the Retirement Home

  I remember clearly the day the new flat screen TV set arrived at our apartment in the retirement home. I stared at this marvel of technology and watched as the... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• We Speak 50 Languages in the Retirement Home

  I push the hot water button on the water dispenser to fill my coffee cup and turn to greet someone hobbling along on his crutches. The boiling water overflows... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Pill Fight in the Retirement Home

  It’s another one of those anomalies: the most popular 4 wheeled vehicle in the world is the ubiquitous shopping-cart; the main ingredient of a Golden Ager’s die... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Catching a Dose of Old Age in the Retirement Home

  Nowadays when I sit in the lounge or the auditorium and look around at the residents in the retirement home, I understand that I am not the youngest person here... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Computer Crash in the Retirement Home

  Computers, as most of us have found out the hard way, can crash anywhere and at any time. The retirement home is no exception. There is no germination period an... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• When You’ve Been Around A Long Time…

  The thing is that when you’ve been around for a long time, like 80 years – and you can still remember the old days, good or not – you often find yourself the... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pope Francis Is a Member of The Seniors Club

  Whatever the youngsters may think, in the end it is we Seniors who are guiding the world. The young may rule, make decisions and fight battles and wars but the... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• When It All Goes Out Of Control

  Not everything is in our control. Some days just do as they like with no reference to the owner… Take my past few days, for instance. My normal day is wake,... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Vincent Van Gogh Is Back Here

  I planned to write the Vincent Van Gogh blog article before we had seen the exhibition and with a sense of excitement at doing something a little different –... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Vincent Van Gogh, Blogger and Painter, Comes To Visit

  We visited the “Van Gogh Alive” exhibition today. Wow! He really came to alive. What an experience! I can’t remember anything presented so powerfully. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Get My Face Slapped In the Retirement Home

  Yup, I stuck my neck out in the retirement home and got my face slapped for my trouble. But it was worth it. Without a doubt the most common sight in a... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 COMMUNITY, HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION