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| Image by eflon via Creative Commons |
I started my blog on aging thirteen years ago today. I realize that Instagram and TikTok are becoming more popular among the various social media platforms. However, I still like the blog format, and I use this blog primarily to record the results of my reading what experts say about various aspects of aging at midlife and late life. I also use this blog to record personal experience.
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| Photo by Andre' Hofmeister via Creative Commons |
Another year is coming to a close, so I am looking in the rearview mirror once again.
In 2024, I wrote and published 19 posts, including this one. I succeeded in meeting my two posts a month goal until fall semester got into full swing, then I was silent during October and November. I was teaching three classes: two online for University of Southern Indiana and one for Snow College. I was also working 10-15 hours a week at my local public library. I just did not have the attention span to do much else once students' drafts of their research papers starting rolling in for comments.
However, during the three previous years, I published fewer than 19 posts, so there is some victory in this year's total!
Now let's look which of these posts garnished the most views. I hope that you find one that interests you.
In reverse order, here they are:
10. 85th Birthday Celebration on Mother's Day LINK
9. Late Life Happiness Boost: U Shaped Happiness Curve LINK
8. Patchwork Country Fitness LINK
7. Happy 20th Yoga-versary LINK
6 Outlive: Book Review LINK
5. Older Adults and Youth: Connecting the Past and the Present in the Future LINK
4. Drinking More Water LINK
3. The Book of Charlie: Book Review LINK
2. When Pneumonia Hijacked My Spouse LINK
And DRUMROLL, PLEASE!
1. Word of the Year for 2024: Community LINK
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| Wren in the Snow College Faculty Locker Room |
When I was living in Wichita, Kansas, I attended a book club where one of the members brought a guest who was visiting from out of town. She was in her mid 80s and projected a lot of energy. I asked her about her fitness routine, and she told me that she had been swimming regularly for decades. I told myself that I would start swimming when I got older.
At 62, I am running out of future for doing things "when I'm older."
For this reason (at at the prodding of my friend Rachel), I started swimming during this semester (Fall 2024).
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| September 2024 Meeting of the Ephraim Camp of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers |
I soon learned that the locals like to ask you about your people--and they do not mean your parents. They want to know who your great, great grandparents are.
Scandinavian Heritage
This area was settled for years by Native Americans, but Ephraim as well as all of Sanpete County focus a lot on the immigrants who arrived primarily from Scandinavia in the 1850s. During the weekend of Memorial Day, this town holds a Scandinavian Days Festival, and people want to ask if your ancestors came from Norway, Sweden, Finland, or Denmark. I hear less about Iceland, but that is a Scandinavian country, too.
I have some relatives from Copenhagen, but none of them ended up in Sanpete County.
Daughters of Utah Pioneers
