Greetings from the Pine Tree State and day 6 of my stay with my 106-year-old mother, Phyllis. Today I’ll comment on one of the most...

It occurred to me that one change I've noted in Mom, and that seems to be ubiquitous among the elderly, is her decline in initiating...

Sitting with Mom at the card table (one win/one loss) I had to marvel at the fact that I was playing cards with a human whose heart has...

On this date, August 7th, in 1908, the year my mother Phyllis, was born, nothing of historical significance happened. Henry Ford's...

An article today in the Bangor Daily News referencing Dr Levine's “Sitting is the new smoking-or worse”. This state of excessive sitting...