We never know what the configuration of each new CircleTalk group will be until the first day. It is always interesting to see who we attract! Couples, all women, a mix of men and women? Does it matter that members have known each other, superficially, for years or not at all? Our new CircleTalk group at Golden […]
In Defense of Living Until Ninety
Dr. George Vaillant, long-time director of the Harvard Grant Study of human development, wrote a critical commentary on Ezekiel Emanuel’s much-discussed article asserting that he planned not live beyond age 75. Vaillant has a different point of view: “For myself, once frightened of aging, I retired at 72, turning the directorship of the Harvard Study […]
Looking for Purpose
Yesterday, as I sat in my home office looking out the front window, I noticed my neighbor of 25 years standing in her driveway waiting and watching the mailwoman deliver mail to everyone around her but not to her house. After 61 years, Barb and her husband Frank had moved into an assisted living community a […]
