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Monthly Archives: October 2015

Warning: Brain Charge Has Reached Critical Level

29 Thursday Oct 2015

Posted by nellcastle in Aging

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aging, Memory

Out of Order

More memory scares this week. Do they increase when I observe and document them?

Groping for the right word when I’m talking to someone: it happens to me all the time. Snapping my fingers or shaking my head hard usually dislodges the word. This isn’t a new phenomenon for me. I’m an absentminded person who digresses in conversation constantly. Like Holden Caulfield, I’m more interested in conversational tangents that lead to unexpected and unguarded moments. My brain skips ahead of my tongue. Mostly, I don’t worry about it.

When my memory lapses during writing, though, I get a little scared.

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Fight the Good Fight

13 Tuesday Oct 2015

Posted by nellcastle in Marriage, Self Image

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attraction, body image, exercise, keeping the spark, marriage, narcissism, self image, sexy, staying fit, weight loss

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Sitting in a hot dog shop with my best friend at the age of fifteen, we made a pledge to move in with each other when we were old and our husbands were dead (age sixty, we figured) and eat as much as we wanted, all of the time, until we died happy.

Sad to say, we’d already put in years of dieting. The short, curvy stature we shared required vigilance and self-control. Our guiltiest pleasure was to imagine overdosing on ice cream and chocolate. Continue reading →

Another One Bites the Dust

05 Monday Oct 2015

Posted by nellcastle in Marriage

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aging, commitment, divorce, fear, hope, marriage, mid-life crisis, romance

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Kayla and Matt were the friendliest couple I’ve ever met.

Not just to other people, but to each other. They were in their early 30’s, with two small kids and a home business. They laughed at each others’ jokes, finished each others’ sentences, ate off of each others’ plates.

A little sickening, right? Especially for those of us married for years to husbands who migrate to their gender cluster at every social gathering.

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