Tag: aging

• Book Review: How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

  How do you feel about books that start with an epigraph? Yea or nay? I generally like it, but sometimes I have no idea of its relevance until deep into the book. Not with this one, however. Last night I finished How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley. This book is VERY popular right now.…

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  February 5, 2025

  books, Essay

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• Book Review: Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple – Smell the Soup, Cool the Soup

  I used to sleep like a log every night. I could drink a cup of tea or a cup of coffee and turn out my lamp and fall asleep before I was finished with my prayers. I would wake up whenever forced to, many hours later, often in the exact same position I was in…

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  August 31, 2020

  books, Essay

  age, aging, Bernadette, book-review, books, faith, insomnia, Kindle, Maria Semple, menopause, pandemic, reading, sleep, stress, teaching, writing