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Growing Old, Gracefully.

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Getting socked

Simple tasks that were second nature to me for decades have now become challenges. Putting my socks on in the morning is one of them. Either my legs got longer or my arms shorter, but now there are often a few inches separating my foot from the outstretched sock shaking in …

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Super star

Looking back on my sports career, only a few minor obstacles kept me from being a famous pro athlete in either basketball or football. I close my eyes and see visions of me being interviewed by ESPN or signing autographs for all the little kids who have dreams of being just …

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Extra credit

For those of you falling behind in Aging 101, you have the opportunity to complete this extra credit assignment.  Make a list of those things you know you should be doing, but you don’t. Below are five of out of the nearly 100 I came up with. This was a no-brainer challenge …

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Macho man

Some men, as they age, continue to have that rugged, masculine look. That’s not me. I never was a Clint Eastwood kind of guy, and aging hasn’t helped me a bunch. The same goes for a close friend of mine, Tony, who worked at The University of Wisconsin with me decades ago. We …

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Brevity is the soul of wit

I try to follow Shakespeare’s advice when writing this blog. But darn, that’s a hard order for me to follow.  Adjectives and adverbs can look so delectable. They can dress up a boring  sentence to make it appear to be a bigger deal than what it is. I get sucked in by …

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