3 hours ago by Andrew

My back hurts, my memory’s going and I enjoy a quiet night in with my slippers on. I’m getting old. Seriously, the past few months have drilled it into me that I am just not made for the fast-paced life of High School. I think I’ll just retire after my GCSEs, buy a little house in the country and re ...

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7 hours ago by auntyd

My friend, Laurie, and I walked our dogs together this morning. Her dog, Pepper, is a 14-year-old standard poodle who’s getting down in his back. Actually he’s pretty spry for his age, and mostly I think some of his “medical” complaints are due to Laurie being overprotective. She says he’s deaf, but ...

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8 hours ago by cb

I probably picked the wrong clothes to go to work yesterday. I knew I was going to visit a house that had been kept in what might be called ‘less than sanitary conditions’. Although that is a fairly gross understatement. As a student accompanying me remarked as we approached the property – ‘There’s ...

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16 hours ago by suelange

In 1867 Karl Marx reported: Potter,* the chosen mouthpiece of the manufacturers distinguishes two sets of “machinery,” each of which belongs to the capitalist, and of which one stands in his factory, the other at night-time and on Sundays is housed outside the factory, in cottages. The one is inanim ...

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19 hours ago by Amy G

Anne Tyler, a keen observer and chronicler of human nature, explores the last phase of life in her latest, Noah’s Compass. Liam Pennywell, sixty-one and recently downsized from his teaching job, finds himself the victim of a botched burglary. Liam awakens in the hospital with no recollection of how ...

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23 hours ago by Dawn

Back in 2001 when I had my laser eye surgery I was 20/2000. Basically, I couldn't see shit, near or far. It was a problem and an inconvenience in so many ways and having the surgery changed my life. As I left the doctor's office that fateful day I was told that this is not a cure for what surely wil ...

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1 day ago by toohotmamas

Hey, Wendy! First the Delany sisters and now this! Clearly, the best writers are old writers! I was just reading Green Eggs and Ham with my 6-year-old son, and some questions came up about Dr. Seuss. So, we Googled him. I did not know that Theodore Geisel’s (aka: Dr. Seuss) career as the writer we k ...

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1 day ago by hsachs

February 3 rd, – by Howard Most people living in such a retirement facility in their 80s have already experienced many losses. The most significant of these losses include husbands or wives or mates or life partners of some sort and are now living alone. And find this style of existence a lonely one ...

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1 day ago by Bob McCluskey

Image via Wikipedia I have in the past written about the potential of Ginkgo Biloba in the prevention of memory loss. In the interest of fairness, I need to tell you about the latest research findings in this regard. In a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 2 ...

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1 day ago by Miss Cellania

Three older ladies named Rose, Gertrude and Mildred were sitting on a park bench having a quiet conversation when a flasher approached from across the parking lot. The flasher came up to the ladies, stood right in front of them and opened his trench coat. Rose immediately had a stroke. Then Gertrude ...

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