by mkellent | Feb 29, 2020 | I never thought I could, Our world
I love to walk the dogs in my new neighborhood. A creek flows just a block or so away. On my first visit I saw how this beautiful creek was filled with plastic trash. I saw this lovely white heron peck up a shiny piece of trash for food. I couldn’t stop...
by admin | Dec 12, 2019 | Individual Aging
The past year presented me with a fork in the road on which I had been traveling for a long time. My choice was to continue to work in the field of Creative Aging, which I started almost by accident in the late 1970’s, or to go in a new direction. I had spent...
by mkellent | Sep 24, 2018 | I never thought I could, Individual Aging
It’s the morning after BackStory and my first experience of telling my own story to an audience in the theatre. Fortunately there were some friends and my daughter in the audience, which was reassuring and the lights were so strong you could only see the first...
by mkellent | May 16, 2018 | Individual Aging, Reflections
Thanks to Ageless Authors <www.agelessauthors.com> here’s my story in Parents, For Better or For Worse! A Proper Mother She sits, as erect as a ballerina, in a small boat rocking on a dark brown channel between fields of high growing sugar-cane....
by mkellent | May 16, 2018 | I never thought I could, Individual Aging
A couple of months ago my daughter sent me information on a writing competition for people over the age of 65. An organization called Ageless Authors (www.agelessauthors.com) who describe themselves as a collaborative “effort to recognize your vitality, your...
by mkellent | Feb 19, 2018 | Individual Aging, Inspiration
What do you think about birthdays? Numbers have such an important influence on our lives. And sometimes have no bearing other than to reinforce expectations – and unfounded ones at that. We ask little children how old they are – perhaps because we don’t know how else...
