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You Are Not Alone: Hope and Help for Caregivers.

If you belong to one of the many Latino families who are facing the prospect of a difficult Christmas because you are caring for your elders and maybe your children, too, this post is for you. Juggling your job, your kids, and older adults, most likely won’t give you time to take for yourself. In […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Another year rushing to its end.

Wait, but it’s still November! You may gasp, but time goes faster as you add-on years. Life conspires to start gaining momentum when you wish it didn’t. When you are young you can’t wait to be old enough to drink, to go off on your own, to finish college, to start making a good living […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The solace of belief.

A few years ago I asked one of my students why, after retiring, he had decided to turn to Buddhism. His answer was unexpected. I didn’t understand it then, but I do now. Give it time and most things in life will become clear. “As I age, my friends are slowly dying, and I need […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Missing a great man.

He was a character. No ordinary man. He was a genius, a philanderer, a writer, a painter, a poet and a celebrated professor. I was young then, when I sat listening to his dissertations on life, his attacks to politicians, and his hatred towards the ordinary. I was too young then to celebrate such a […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Leonard Cohen, the poet who teaches us lessons.

Leonard Cohen; the poet, the songwriter, the magical course voice that gets to you, that grabs your heart and sways you. My Leonard is eighty and only getting better.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

When I thought I was too old…

Feeling old is a question of attitude. You’re only old when you give up enthusiasm and set limits for yourself based on a number. That could happen at any age.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

What does “too old” really mean?

Am I too old? This depends on what you not only want to do but also the will that’s in it to do it. If you have the stamina, you are too old for few things, unless your health gets in the way and your mind too.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Time and making every moment count.

As I go through last year’s credit card statement to figure out my write-offs, not very romantic, I’m amazed at how long ago it all seems. Those trips, coffees, dinners, and hotels appear to have happened longer ago. My life seems to have switched gears and the slowness of time I felt as a kid has turned […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Are you over 45?

I recently read a very funny article on the telling signs that you are over 40. But in my book, 40 is still close enough to 39 that it gets grandfathered (or is it grandmothered?) into the 30s. But 45?