catapult magazine

Items tagged aging

• Mother to mother

  Thoughts on shifting roles in the latter years of a parent’s life.

• Hating my family

  The times, they are a changin’ in my family and yours.

• Top ten new experiences of 2007, my 49th year

  Documenting a year’s list of notable milestones.

• These things remain

  Reflections on the occasion of a not-so-pivotal birthday.

• Memorable leaves

  How a book became a companion in pained solitude.

• The roaring twenties

  On surrendering control and remembering how to play in a season of inevitable change.

• First, the wedding

  On planning the ceremony after 50, with kids, in the midst of the stuff of life.

• Living like Grandma

  Learning to be at peace in all circumstances from a matriarch's example.

• A word from Rosie and a cup of tea

  On learning how to be present in each moment of every year of life.

• Not that different

  The story of an encounter between young and old.

• The time that is left to us

  In the shadow of winter, a reflection on where we belong.

• She heightened my awareness of the world

  Remembering a grandmother's legacy.

• Blooms, dreams, roots, wings, aging and other things

  How a maxim has taken on meaning throughout a life.

• (Dis)comfort food

  Remembering a mother’s edible expressions of love.