I’ve come across two quotes and a poem that gave me pause and created a particular effect on my sense of reality. The effect, I am speaking of is, I think, a unique experience for someone who is getting older. When I say, “for someone who is getting older” I am...

August 21: Age & Memory I just listened to a youtube clip of Tom Hiddleston reciting an excerpt of Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. The excerpt is from “Word and Music: Memory.” The last lines really touched me and after listening, I sat in wonder at...

August 2, 2020 This entry is not about aging. Tonight I am writing about the rain. I am writing about being in Northern Thailand close to the Mekong River. I am writing about the actual experience of being in a foreign land and still being me, the part that is...

I am 72 years old and I am writing a dissertation that explores the meaning of aging. This assumes that there is a meaning and that we can come to know the meaning, if only a little bit, by asking people to tell the story of their aging. I am interested in how people...