Category Archives: Aging

For the Record

Posted on June 7, 2023 by sputterpub

The benefit to penning notes like these(most days a rhyming form of diaries)is I can scan the posts I’ve left behind,and let those metered syllables remindme clearly of a symptom suffered, whichI thought might be forever. So the itchpersistent on … Continue reading →

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Static Strategy

Posted on June 6, 2023 by sputterpub

What can I do, when weather’s cold and grayalthough we’ve passed the very end of May,and age requires weeks instead of daysto mend a little injury? Just praisemy fortune that I have this cozy home,the leisure to compose a little … Continue reading →

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Another Aging Lesson

Posted on June 5, 2023 by sputterpub

Two weeks ago, when first I hurt my foot,I little thought how long I’d be impaired.I wore new shoes and carelessly I putmy step so balance went, discomfort flared.And probably I should have then bewaredand stopped my forward motion, sat … Continue reading →

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It’s Too Late

Posted on June 4, 2023 by sputterpub

I taught a roommate how to binge on foodwhen I was 17. We walked aroundand cycled flavors with an attitudethat we’d amend our ways and diet soon.As old as 58, I even skewedto overeat once more before a shiftto moderation, … Continue reading →

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Limp Reminder

Posted on May 22, 2023 by sputterpub

Misstepping as I exited my yard,I skewed my foot and let its outer sideimpact the ground. My landing wasn’t hard –I tried to walk it off and not abidean injury – but something must have priedapart, a little metatarsal thing.My … Continue reading →

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First Aid

Posted on May 20, 2023 by sputterpub

Returning home I wouldn’t raise the shade,although it wasn’t hot at ten past noon.Awake at five, I did odd jobs and playedwith kids for hours. Then I waited forthree forms of transportation, that conveyedme home amid track closures and the … Continue reading →

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Distraction

Posted on May 19, 2023 by sputterpub

Forgetting what you left the room to dooccurs at every age, but frequencyincreases – every senior knows that’s true –and doesn’t seem as funny recently.Confusing hand and mind, so that you threwthe coffee grounds away that ought to bearrayed beneath … Continue reading →

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March Death and May News

Posted on May 16, 2023 by sputterpub

My high school friend has lost her mate, I hear,two months ago. Her email yesterdayannounced his death. Residing nowhere nearwe lived when young, exchanging words the waywe do now (twice a year some birthday news),and knowing he was over 99,I … Continue reading →

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Learning to Live with Leisure

Posted on May 14, 2023 by sputterpub

I lately have a lot of leisure time.Retirement first freed a chunk for meto travel, read, solve puzzles, work on rhyme,and sample ways to slow declivity.Pandemic damped down my society,and grandkids aged to need me less at play.Hiatus at my … Continue reading →

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The Deciding Symptom

Posted on May 10, 2023 by sputterpub

“Reactive airway” were the words I heard.“Disorder” (or “disease”) succeeded those.That’s how he named the wheezing that occurredwhen I sustained a cold. Such breathing woes,a temporary asthma, virus-spurred,a side-effect from all the smoke I chose,and kept inhaling till I got … Continue reading →

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