Personal Essay

Personal Essay

Don’t Let Divisiveness Divide Us

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The Senior Outlook Today Team

By Jill Chapin About the only thing that Florida governor Ron de Santis and I have in common is that ...

Personal Essay

A Very Belated Thankfulness for My Dad

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The Senior Outlook Today Team

By Jill Chapin My father has been gone for over forty years, but I saw something recently while getting a ...

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Yet Another Manufactured Crisis

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The Senior Outlook Today Team

By Jill Chapin Do you recall the measles outbreak in 2015?  Although there had been no reported deaths in the U.S. ...

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The Trendelenberg Dance*

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The Senior Outlook Today Team

Chorus: Trendelenberg, trendelenbergI cannot tame my broken hip Verse: Trendelenerg, trendelenbergI lurch, sway, pitch, and nearly  tripI once could walk ...

Personal Essay

Grandma’s Three Days in Disneyland

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The Senior Outlook Today Team

By Karen Fisher Ho COVID, masks, six feet apart, hand sanitizers, vaccination cards and all the other insanity of 2020 ...

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What Has Happened to Us?

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The Senior Outlook Today Team

By Jill Chapin Fear.  Irrational fear.  It is more insidious and harder to irradicate than Covid. Why?  What has happened to our once ...

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Retirement: Labor Done

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The Senior Outlook Today Team

By Jerry Robbins At desk I toil till noonday sunPush back my chair my labor doneEase my mindAll thoughts unwindNow ...