mortality

Memories from My Seven-Dog Life

Jake, our smiling Corgi and the last chapter of my seven-dog life. When I get to thinking I’m old and approaching senility, I try to remember that in dog years I’m barely ten. In many ways, dogs are like milestones along my life’s journey. A dog’s life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Dogs are over the hill, or under the ground, before they reach 16. When you’re lazy, people accuse you of dogging it. When [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-08-02T13:46:29+00:00August 2, 2022|Aging, death, Dogs, Family, Love, Mortality, Old Age|

You Can’t Escape Old Age, So Live with It
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You Can’t Escape Old Age, So Live with It

You Can’t Escape Old Age, So Live with It

As is often the case with people of advanced age, with each departed birthday I find myself more frequently contemplating my mortality than when I was in my thirties, forties, fifties and even (gulp) sixties. When you have passed— make that surpassed— all of those milestone decades, you can’t help thinking about how much time you have left. …so go the days of our lives. Colorful and interesting people disguised in white hair and wrinkles have enriched [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:10:31+00:00January 18, 2020|Aging, death, Humor, Journalism and Writing, Newspapers, Retirement, Social Issues, World War II, YMCA|