by Barry Phegan | Jul 16, 2026 | Aging, Living Life
In April 9 this year I wrote about how I felt largely disconnected from what these days passes as news, and how that disconnection might be signaling me to change course. Here’s what happened. Two months after that April 9 blog, “Disconnecting, or Changing...
by Barry Phegan | Apr 9, 2026 | Aging
These 70andOlder postings moved from two a month to one every two or three months. Now I have lost interest in national politics. What’s happening? Is this part of an inevitable winding down that fits my age? It is time to play the pokies (that’s what the...
by Barry Phegan | Nov 5, 2025 | Aging, Living Life, Uncategorized
Sometimes small experiences open doors to larger issues. This happened to me recently while visiting the children’s playground at Hal Brown Park near my home in Greenbrae. On this visit I was sitting on a short concrete wall separating a path from plants. About...
by Barry Phegan | Feb 27, 2025 | Aging, Living Life
Early last year I read an article suggesting we should shake up our lives every 10 years. I’m not a fan of “shoulds”, but the idea was attractive. So in June 2024 I stopped volunteering at Venetia Valley primary school, and in January 2025 handed over...
by Barry Phegan | Nov 21, 2023 | Aging, Living Life
I was talking with my son about his retirement, which is probably 15 to 20 years away. This got me thinking about my own future and my remaining years. At this point, I’m looking at quality, not quantity. I turned 84 this month. While another 10 years would be...
by Barry Phegan | Dec 29, 2022 | Aging, Social comment
Global climate change brought me some personal and unexpected consequences that told me I have a new future. Back in 2006 when I saw Al Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” it seemed that climate change (known in those days as ‘global warming’) was...
