by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 4, 2014 | 2014, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Mental Illness
Dementia is an irreversible and progressive intellectual disability affecting key functions of daily life and caused by a groups of disease processes… Alzheimer’s disease accounts for two -thirds of cases, and is the best known. (Rosemary Hurtley, Insight...
by Bernice Lee | Mar 28, 2014 | 2014, Aging, Articles, Family, Honoring Parents, Life Issues
My beloved Soo Inn and I are standing at the threshold of the third third of our lives (as Walter C. Wright puts it). It’s a sobering time. There are more years to look back on than there are to look ahead to this side of eternity. Being part of the sandwich...
by Bernice Lee | Feb 17, 2012 | 2012, Aging, Articles, Life Issues
It must be me. I’m like a trip wire, drawn taut between two trees: ageism on the one side and super-spirituality on the other. Barely noticeable until someone trips over me and triggers off deadly barbs. I’m particularly sensitive right now to the needs of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 3, 2011 | 2011, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Media, Music
I’m goin’ back in time And it’s a sweet dream It was a quiet night And I would be all right If I could go on sleepin’ (“Best of My Love,” Eagles, 1974) Last week Bernice gave me an early birthday treat. She got us tickets to the Eagles concert held in the Indoor...
by Bernice Lee | Dec 10, 2010 | 2010, Aging, Articles, Life Issues
Earlier this week I had lunch with a dear friend, one of the bravest ladies I know. A breast cancer survivor, she discovered last year that the cancer had snuck up on her again. I’m sure she had her share of long and hard discussions with her Maker following that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 22, 2010 | 2010, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Media, Movies & Television
The wisest quote from the movie RED (2010) cannot be found in any list of quotable quotes from the movie. It comes from the scene where Frank Moses, the Bruce Willis character, visits his mentor, Joe Matheson, the Morgan Freeman character, who is living in an old...