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Making Choices: Election Day

by Renée Levine | Oct 27, 2020 | Adventure, Aging, Guest Post, Letters from Renee, Relocations, Transitions | 0 |

I did not vote for fascism just when my country plunged deeply into a vile dictatorship. Last...

Labor Stories

by Renée Levine | Sep 28, 2020 | Aging, Celebrations, Change, Guest Post, Letters from Renee | 0 |

It is 2020 now as I look back some seventy odd years later, stunned at a time so changed. “Will you vote Labour this time, Eric?” No, he would not. He had always voted Tory. Attlee had taken Labour into the war in 1940. The...

Letters from Renée: Loving Beyond Dementia

by Renée Levine | Jul 13, 2020 | Aging, Change, Guest Post, Letters from Renee, Loss, Relationships, Relocations | 0 |

Helping a dying man, your husband, as he is slowly diminishing, slowly dying, shrinking, is also...

Take Out Food During Covid-19

by Nancy Reed | Jun 4, 2020 | Adventure, Coronavirus, Guest Post | 0 |

Perhaps I was overreacting. I got my food and took it directly to the car. I wiped down my hands, the bag and containers. It will be alright. Great job! I have noted in my permanent record, the one I have been keeping in my...

Loss During Shelter-in-Place

by Janice Levine | May 27, 2020 | Coronavirus, Guest Post, Loss | 0 |

This is about my team of angels, those who have carried me through, albeit at a social distance,...

Pandemic Art Journal: The Art Before Me

by Lisa Schaewe | May 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, Guest Post, Voice | 0 |

These little watercolors in my sketchbook are a practice of intimacy. They are a way to ask what...

Letters from Renée: Settling Emotional Debt

by Renée Levine | Apr 17, 2020 | Aging, Change, Coronavirus, Guest Post, Letters from Renee, Loss, Relationships | 0 |

I had the subject of taxes on my mind a month ago or so, but not in financial terms so much as from the side of emotional debt and emotional credits. Given my age of just around the corner from my 95th birthday, I wanted to feel...