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Buying Real Estate at an Older Age is a Dilemma Many don’t want to Face
It’s a fact that stats concur; the vast majority of older Americans want to age in place in their homes, a familiar setting with people they know, trust and love. Whether still living in a rental where the monthly fees are soaring or a large home that needs regular, expensive repairs, has stairs and seems lonely with so many empty rooms, many aging folks are realizing these places don’t work for them any longer. Do you go through the ordeal of decluttering and finding a new place, even though you know inventory is in limited supply and the process is...
Want to Make New Friends? Meet, Greet & Don’t Make the Conversation all About You
We hear all the time that people at our older ages have a harder time making new friends. We’ve suggested many ways of doing so in prior blogs—taking a class of any kind, signing up to do volunteer work, joining a house of worship, getting a part-time job, finding a book club that has openings which may be at a library or community center. In our quest to find new friends, one of the cardinal rules we’ve learned to have people become interested in us—there’s no certainty they’ll like us, is to show interest in them. This is so basic,...
Assumptions: the negative noise in our brain that leads to misguided thinking
When faced with a situation over which we have no or little control and don’t have a definite answer or solution, our brains go on overdrive. We churn out assumptions—it could be this, or that, or maybe or not at all or all in. We are masters of spinning hypothetical scenarios, the way our dryers spin clothing around and around in cycles until it’s dry. We do the same until we’ve exhausted all possibilities. We have a good excuse. We’re creative types who cogitate and escalate as if our assumptions will make whatever is in our craw go away...
We Feel Older When…
We wrote a blog in December 2023, about how we’re feeling old, (‘I am too old for this! Time to pass the baton [or drumstick metaphorically] ). It was about changing traditions when certain circumstances occur, and we’d like the younger generation to take on some family traditions. Time has passed since we wrote that blog, and we’re still here (fortunately), still active and busy (yeh, us), but we’re feeling even older. We’re moving at times as slow as garden snails (a reason we’d never eat escargot). We ignore creaking and cracking bones and aching joints, maybe walk with...
Tossing and turning? Here are stress busters to help zap anxiety in the bud
Do you wake up at three or four in the morning, disturbed by thoughts of what’s ahead? Or you’re about to buy a condo that you’re not sure you can afford? Or your significant other has been diagnosed with an illness and you must care for them when you work full-time? Or you may have a work deadline looming and you must get up at 4 a.m. to meet it? Who can count all the challenges that we face daily? Not us. Stress. Stress. Stress. What exactly is it? For us it’s feeling out of control, being overwhelmed and very...