by Barry Phegan | Nov 25, 2024 | Living Life, Social comment
In October this year, I slipped and fell. I’d been shampooing my carpet and didn’t realize that there was soapy water on the kitchen floor. I stepped on it with bare feet. They immediately flew up into the air, just like in a cartoon. As my hip and elbow hit...
by Barry Phegan | Jul 3, 2024 | Living Life
About five years ago I invited each of my grandchildren, when they turned 14, to join me for a two-week trip to anywhere. The year before the pandemic, Cameron, my step-grandson in Ohio and I drove from Mansfield near Columbus to Philadelphia, New York, Boston,...
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 | Jul 26, 2023 | Living Life
I just returned home from two weeks in the UK with one of my grandsons. He was 15 and now 16. We landed at London Heathrow late morning, checked into our hotel near St. Pancras Station by 2 PM (14:00), bought local cell phone numbers with new chips for our...
by Barry Phegan | Apr 24, 2023 | Living Life, Social comment
Complaining It seems there’s no end to things to complain about and no end to people willing to complain. Personally, I’m a little tired of all this complaining. That’s my complaint. I complain about the political fights in Washington DC. “Why...
by Barry Phegan | Mar 30, 2023 | Living Life, Social comment
https://70andolder.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/The-Benefits-of-Modern-Society-Have-Costs.mp4 If you believe climate change is a problem, is modern medicine also a problem? I learned the hard way that they come as paired products of our culture. You...
