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It's that time of year where many are taking a backward glance over the concluding year.
Over the last year, I have been focused on building community in the small town (population just under 6,000) where I moved about two years prior. I have two part-time jobs while running three book clubs. I also exercise at a few different venues and volunteer at a few places. I am still have trouble with focus and memory from being a little overbooked. Being busy while aging led to a challenge with fatigue once fall semester started. I had to reflect on how to increase my stamina.
Because I tend to talk too much about my accomplishments, I chose "Meek" as my word of the year in an attempt to keep a lower profile. Oh, that was a complete failure. Now I have a very strong understanding of my chief weakness. Isn't "Recognition" the first step of the repentance problems.
Despite stepping away from teaching gerontology classes or volunteering with older adults as I did in Indiana and Kansas, I still think about issues related to aging from midlife through late life and post about them here from time to time. Next week I will celebrate my 14th blogoversary, and I want to maintain this project even if I am not as prolific here as I was initially.
I read over 100 books this year, and about a half dozen featured characters who were in midlife or late live. Only two landed in the Top 10, but that is probably because I read most of those books in the second half of the year.
Here are the ten posts written in 2025 that received the most views this year:
1. More Community Building. Link
2. Tom Lake: Book Review. Link
3. Cognitive Overload. Link
