Happy 14th Blogoversary

 

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Ah, the earth has made another trip around the sun, and this blog has accrued another anniversary, or blogoversary, if you will. 

This post will be number 510.  If my math is correct, this blog has posted on average three times each month (with some wild variation).  My goal is to post at least twice a month. 

Even though people have turned more towards social media posts that have images and posts that are shorter (I'm looking at you, Instagram), this blog still receives about 300 hits a day on days that I do not promote any content. 

Views for this blog
between Jan 2012 to Jan 2026

According to Blogger's statistics, these are the twelve posts that garnished the most views during 2025. Of course, there are a lot of evergreen posts on the posts most viewed during 2025 from all available posts. However, one post (More Community Building) did break through into this year's most viewed posts. 

Without further ado, here are the Top 12 Most Viewed Posts during 2025: 

1. Movies about Love and Sex for People 50 Plus. ( Posted 13 April 2013).  Link

2. More Community Building (Posted 31 March 2025). Link

3. Live On, Give On: MedTech Recipients Serve Others (Posted 16 December 2014) Link

4. Travel Made Me Feel My Youth Link (14 July 2013). Link

5. Showering with Nana (2 July 2015) Link

6. Aging Disgracefully (26 March 2013) Link

7. Movies of Older Adults Active in the Dying Process (30 November 2012) Link

8. Robert C. Peck's Tasks for Older Adults (1 June 2013) Link

9. Biomarkers for Longevity and Health (8 July 2015) Link

10. Films about Aging (8 July 2015) Link

After fourteen years, I am still interested in maintaining this blog. This makes senses given that I am in my mid 60s, many of my friends are in midlife or late life, and my children's six grandparents are still living: 

• My father and step-mother live in a 55 plus neighborhood, but she is living some form of dementia, not specifically diagnosed, but it's probably Alzheimer's dementia, vascular dementia, or mixed type. (Those are the top three types in any case.)  My father--in his late 80s--still drives, cares for the yard, shops, cooks, cleans, and now cares for his wife. 
• My mother and step-father live in an assisted living facility. He also lives with dementia, normal pressure hydrocephalus. In the late spring of 2025, he was moved into the dementia wing of the same assisted living facility. He maintains his same kind and positive nature. He spends a couple of hours every day with my mother, who is living with myalgic encephamyolitis (ME) aka chronic fatigue syndrome and some mobility issues (bad knee from an injury and also no cartilage and neuropathy in her feet). She has bad days, bad hours, but she maintains very sharp cognition between ME brain fog. 
• My in-laws live in a home they are renting from one of their four sons who lives nearby in a town outside of Oklahoma City. Another son also lives there. There are thirteen Austins in that city, and all but four of them drive. The family members help with home repairs and computer maintenance. My in-laws still drive, but they are slowing down because of mobility issues and heart issues (both of them) as well as hearing problems. They are very engaged with their local extended family members, particularly my service-oriented mother-in-law. 

Related: 

Happy 13th Blogoversary This list has six evergreen posts that are not listed above. 

Happy 12th Blogoversary This posts contains links for all prior blogoversary posts.