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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...

I’ve Lost Myself

by Renée Levine | Aug 13, 2020 | Aging, Change, Letters from Renee, Loss, Transitions | 0 |

The old and shrunk woman ahead of me is no one with whom I am familiar. I find her depressing....

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...

Letters from Renée: Snapshots of an Earlier Time

by Renée Levine | May 15, 2020 | Aging, Change, Letters from Renee, Loss, Relationships, Relocations | 0 |

I have asked myself millions of times: “How could she give birth to a child, take on a lover and...

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...

Letters from Renée: Another Day At The Crossings

by Renée Levine | Mar 28, 2020 | Aging, Letters from Renee | 0 |

My daughter just called – she usually does toward the end of the day, this time to tell me she had spent the day digging up this and replacing that, moving some shrubs and finally sewing some new seed for the thinner spots in...

Letters from Renée: Passover in the Time of Coronavirus

by Renée Levine | Mar 26, 2020 | Letters from Renee, Uncategorized | 1 |

“I often dream life is just as it is only I have well behaved hair and I live in Paris” reads the sign on my door. Perhaps none of you have thought of this, but it came to me this morning when I realized that in my old age home,...