Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Tag: aging
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Slow Writer
The wine glass is finally empty forever. I may have mentioned this a time or two 🙂 I don’t miss wine as much as I miss my formerly sharp memory. My once lightening-like energy. My superior health. All of these things I miss…when I had them, I didn’t appreciate them. When I thought about slowing…
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Three’s Company
My dad is only 18 years older than I am and we are the only two of our family who live in Florida. Dad just got home from an extended visit to my mom and brothers in Michigan; Al and I are glad to have him back. It seems natural that I start to think,…
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Flow in Writing & Life
I’ve been reading Ursula LaGuin’s blog posts No Time to Spare in book form on my Kindle. I’m interested just now in reading about aging…I’d like to write about it, too, and I’m trying. It’s a challenge, but I love when writing presents a new challenge. We’ll see how it works out for me, although…
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Letting Go
The doctor was pissed. She was a small Indian woman and it radiated off her like a heat wave. “You have to stop eating!” she said. “You’ve gained an enormous amount of weight in a small time. This is what you must do: No breakfast, a little tea, that is all…” I tuned her out.…
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Straightening the Curve
Still eating a plant-based whole food diet. My energy level is amazing. I feel easy in my body. I’m never hungry. I don’t miss butter on my potatoes. And I lost a pound. For a few years now I’ve struggled with some messy digestion issues every morning. That’s gone. Arthritis is gone. My craving for…