My half-marathon team has rented this place October 7-10 for our white water rafting trip down the Nantahala River.  Anyone else want to go?  Martha, Conley, you listening?

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I’m pretty steamed.  “Ladies Home Journal’s” cover story last month screamed “How to have the best body at 30, 40 and 50!

So what does it mean if you have passed those decades – which we haven’t since most of my friends and I are only Fifty-thirteen.

But I feel sorry for the poor women in their sixties.  Should they just sit down and nosh down bon-bons in peace and take up knitting?

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My aunt, Mary Eleanor (left),  was named May Queen of her senior citizen  facility in Hawaii recently,  and she did the hula to celebrate.

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I am your constant companion.  I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.

I will push you onward and upward, or drag you down to failure.

I am completely at your command.  Ninety percent of the things you do might just as well be turned over to me, and I will be able to do them quickly and

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I’d love to know who coined the term “senior moments.”  It has become a household phrase in my world, and I’m only in my 50s (fifty-thirteen to be exact).

Personally, I’d love to have a senior moment in the singular sense, but I’m more likely to experience “senior days” and sometimes even “senior weeks!”  I was told by a medical professional not to worry about these mental glitches – everyone has them. No problem.

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