Cheryl’s Blog

Learn to love your lab results

There was a lot of interest in last week’s Zoom Gathering about what we need to know (and do) to enjoy vibrant health in our Wisdom Years. I’d love to continue the conversation with another Zoom gathering…
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What my latest test results taught me

I kept refreshing the page on my computer after receiving notice that the bloodwork results for my annual physical had been delivered to my portal. I was anxious to see if the changes I’d made to my…
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I thought I needed a roadmap, but I…

In January of 2012, during a TEDxWomen talk, Jane Fonda referred to the last three decades of a person’s life as the third act, a developmental stage she sees as a staircase leading to: “the upward…
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The Unexpected Teachers in My Wisdom Years

I was sitting in the back seat of a car, driving through an unknown city, my face pressed against the window, wondering where I was, when I woke to find a wet nose pressed against mine. I opened my eyes…
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You don’t have to earn your joy

I stood at the kitchen sink rinsing plates and putting them in the dishwasher when I noticed a familiar train of thought laying tracks in my head. Let’s see, I told myself, I’m done paying bills, balancing…
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Cheryl with computer

Going back to school in our wisdom years

I sat outside, enjoying the early spring sun, listening to the melodic song of a northern cardinal perched in a nearby tree. I closed my eyes and focused intently on the sound. The notes of its song played…
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How to become brave as you age

My friend Susan gave me a colorful ceramic skull as a gift after a trip to the southwest, and I keep it prominently displayed on a table in my office. The skull is a symbol of “memento mori” – the…
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What would you say if you had the…

Last month, during a Zoom gathering about forming a more comfortable relationship with death, I suggested that we might, as an existential exercise, write a different kind of obituary and share some of…
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A blessing I didn’t see coming

Happy Easter to you and yours. I’m taking the day off and thought I’d share a blog I wrote years ago. ~*~ This morning I went to church for the first time in years. I’d been thinking about going…
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