Recently, I asked a small group, “How do you mark the passage of time?” One person watches the sun’s movement through a window. Another relies on their dog’s daily routine—barking as a signal to let them out. Someone else spoke of seasonal changes in nature. A few mentioned calendars, digital or paper. One reflected that they no longer pay attention to time now that they’re no longer clocking in at work.
I’m not a parent. It’s not that I did not want children, I just didn’t know I wanted kids until I was later in life and single. While I know women who were single and..
About ten years ago, my husband John and I planned to visit our son Tim, who had recently relocated to Florida. Part of that trip included a few days at Disney World..
In this new season of life—early into retirement with grown adult children fully into charting their careers and raising children, I’ve found myself reviewing my own..
Editor’s Note: As we say thank you to Rev. Gantt as he concludes his volunteer service on the United Church Homes’ Blog Team for the past five years, we felt like this..
For many of us United Church Homes’ blog readers, I suspect Juneteenth is a relatively strange word. It was only four years ago that then President Joe Biden signed..
It was a beautiful day in May 1973 and it was our wedding day--a second marriage for both of us and our entry into that new kind of family that was emerging, better..
Once I officially retired, I became more acutely aware of the many “experts” opining about this phase of life. What should I do? What shouldn’t I do? How do I organize..
I’ve never aged in a conventional way. I’m 41, and I find myself living a life that doesn’t quite fit the expected rhythms of age and stage. But honestly? I’m thankful..
When introducing myself I am often interrupted. I begin by saying, “I am the director of The Center for Abundant Aging and we seek to…”
