Tag Archives: Aging

A Swift Birthday Poem for Julia

In which I use one of Swift’s birthday poems to celebrate my Julia’s birthday.

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Joe Biden as a Tom Robbins Character

Think Biden is too old? See what Tom Robbins in “Jitterbug Perfume” says about such complaints.

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Thinned Back to Bare Wood

Hirshfield’s beautiful poem about autumn compares a stripped trees to a revered icon.

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Jane Austen, Fountain of Youth

89-year-old Ruth Wilson finds that rereading Jane Austen keeps her feeling young.

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In Old Age, the Clarity of Early Morning

Milosz’s “Late Ripeness” radiates peace as it describes approaching 90.

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Mothers with a Mind of Their Own

Anyone with an elderly parents–and anyone with a three-year-old–will related to Milne’s “James James Morrison Morrison.”

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Birthday Wishes at 95

For my mother’s 95th birthday, I turn to Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” to express my continuing love.

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Flowers for Algernon, Parable on Aging

With regard to my improving tennis game, I see my present–and my future–in the Daniel Keyes novel “Flowers for Algernon.”

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Is Old Age Becoming Overrated?

A “New Yorker” article on aging turns to literature to debunk the notion that aging is a good thing.

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