At 5 a.m. every day, a voice would come floating up the stairs; “Ronnie, it’s time to get up.” That was my father’s voice telling me it was time to get up and do the morning chores. Some days it was difficult to heed those words, and on other days, I got up and got busy. No matter how ...

I enjoy a challenge and the intricacies of angling, but I also love to catch fish. My bass bag has been whittled down to about five or six go-to plastics, from the dozens and dozens of worms, lizards, tubes and creature baits I had stashed in it as a younger angler. I’d rather set up, drop ...

The human body requires a thorough checkup from time to time to see if anything is amiss or if something has worn out and needs to be replaced. It’s very similar to owning a car. It had been over a decade since my last colonoscopy, as my primary care physician frequently noted. I was long ...

“I Was Dancing,” by Edwin O’Connor, c 1964. The narrator of this book is Daniel, and he is 77 years old now. He refers to himself as “Waltzing Daniel Considine” (p. 48). The other people we meet in Chapter One are Daniel’s son Tom, his wife Ellen, several of Daniel’s friends, ...

Slang tries to make language more efficient. Tickets become “tix.” Pictures become “pics.” Recently we took a “vacay.” That’s vacation for you less cool people. We met our two daughters and attached others for a week of running around Charleston, South Carolina, and Savanah, ...

Making financial decisions takes time, attention and energy at any age. In the case of elderly adults, it may become increasingly difficult to manage finances, particularly if their health is declining or they’re experiencing a cognitive issue. If you’re providing support to aging parents ...