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Marching at 90

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Nancy

This morning DemocracyNow interviewed a woman marcher in St. Louis: she was 90 years old! She said she has always known St. Louis was segregated and racist, ever since she moved there in 1967, and has worked for change. When … Continue reading →

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Memory Loss And Aging

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Nancy

A few months ago one of my daughters told me she was very worried about my memory loss and thought something was wrong. She did so with the force of her personality, which made it doubly distressing. I was already … Continue reading →

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Changes

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Nancy

I sat down to create a video blog this morning, but soon realized I didn’t want to do it. For the forseeable future I won’t be using video blogs anymore, but bi-monthly, written ones. If I feel the urge, or … Continue reading →

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Aging

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Nancy

During my last visit with my daughters, one of them sat me down to talk about my memory loss. She and her sister were concerned, she said. Of course I know that I forget things, and forget more than I … Continue reading →

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Losing It

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Nancy

This past week has been a hell of a week. I am writing about it because I presume most of you who read these posts are, like me, in the last third of your lives. In the last year I … Continue reading →

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