Tag: aging
member name: Joseph Ritz
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March 08, 2009 06:20 PM EDT --
A few years ago an elderly priest, a holy, kind and generous man, a man who has devoted his entire life to the service of God, confided to me that at funerals when he is . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:27 AM EST --
I was long grown up before the arrival of today’s Service Economy, a term which is like calling crop harvesting a country vacation.
When I was a child, we had pleasant-voiced women employed . . .
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January 24, 2008 09:20 PM EST --
I had prepared a couple of lines of patter I was going to say at my 50th high school reunion.
Standing in front of my fellow graduates and their wives and husbands, microphone in hand, I planned to . . .
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April 26, 2007 10:53 AM EDT --
Dog’s grow older sooner than we humans. Watching them become cripled with arthritis and their eyesight begin to dim reminds us of our own inevitable deterioration as we age.
And so as I watch . . .
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May 19, 2007 07:44 PM EDT --
I was born a bastard and I’ve remained one all my life. I became a journalist.”
So begins I NEVER LOOKED FOR MY MOTHER AND OTHER REGRETS OF A JOURNALIST.
The book is a journey which . . .
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April 10, 2006 09:21 AM EDT --
I turned 70 yesteday. There is nothing extraordinary about turning 70. The vast majority of us do.
It is a measure of progress, not a turning point.
Nevertheless, 70 marks a major . . .
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August 22, 2008 08:48 PM EDT --
Fifty years is a long time to be married to the same person. During that time we who have been married that long have changed significantly , both bodily and intellectually. Neither of us looks . . .
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