by healthover50 | | Lifestyle & Longevity
I got the email on a Tuesday afternoon. A former colleague, someone I’d shared a cramped office with for six years, was retiring. The photos showed him on a beach, drink in hand, looking like a man who’d just won life. I sat at my desk, staring at the...
by healthover50 | | Lifestyle & Longevity
I learned this lesson from a man who barely said two hundred words to me in five years. His name was Frank. He was retired, maybe seventy-five, and he volunteered at the community woodshop where I was trying—badly—to build a bookshelf. I was in my early forties, full...
by healthover50 | | Lifestyle & Longevity
I didn’t notice when it started. That’s the thing about slow declines. You don’t wake up one morning dramatically hunched over, staring at the floor, wondering how you got there. You just… lean forward a little more each year. Your shoulders...
by healthover50 | | Lifestyle & Longevity
Here’s the thing nobody warned me about when I was younger: you can be surrounded by people and still feel like you’re on a life raft, drifting out to sea. I discovered this at a party about six years ago. A big one. Lots of noise, wine, people laughing too loudly. I...
by healthover50 | | Reflux
You feel it right now, don’t you? Right here. Behind the Adam’s apple. A pressure. A fullness. Like you just swallowed a golf ball that got stuck halfway down. You swallow. It’s still there. You swallow again. Now it feels bigger. You try to clear...
