Grandparents
Ageism in America is Unconsious and Virulent
Ageism in America is deeply imbedded, largely unconscious and hardly ever confronted. A reader recently sent me a series of cartoons about elderly people. Each panel poked fun at the commonplace inconveniences or afflictions of old age; i.e. incontinence, forgetfulness, general decrepitude, impotence, diminished libido, ineptitude with new gadgets, etc. The subjects were depicted in…
Read MoreTechnology Dominates Modern Life and Takes Over What Once Was Child’s Play
#boardgames #radio #midwest #cowboymovies One of the joys in living in the mountains during the summer is that we escape from a lot of the technology that dominates our lives. Mobile phones often do not work. Radio reception is unpredictable. We do not need air conditioning. We sleep with the windows open and snuggle under…
Read MoreMy Dad Believed in the Manly Art of Self-Defense. No Boxing Gloves for Grampa
#selfdefense #boxing #grandfather #grandchildren May 28 is the anniversary of my father’s death. I wrote about the days leading up to his death in an earlier article for this web site. My dad died on May 28, 1980, after a debilitating series of small strokes that diminished him in degrees until he was barely there…
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