An Age Old Problem
The ladies look the age my mom would be and joining the fun26 total reviews
Comment from pome lover
well, miss head-in-the-sand, you're too young to be thinking about it, anyway. Look at you - pretty and sassy. Enjoy life and as you're not worrying about getting old, you probably won't - and by that I mean, look or act it. :)
Katharine
reply by the author on 03-Jul-2022
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well, miss head-in-the-sand, you're too young to be thinking about it, anyway. Look at you - pretty and sassy. Enjoy life and as you're not worrying about getting old, you probably won't - and by that I mean, look or act it. :)
Katharine
Comment Written 03-Jul-2022
reply by the author on 03-Jul-2022
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Katharine, I am sending you the biggest hug! You are so very sweet!
I needed that today and God always delivers by sending an Angel! Thank you my beautiful friend! You have no idea how much I appreciate your very lovely words! Bless you❣️😘
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and Bless you! That's the first time I've been called an angel!!
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Then it is about time!!!
It describes you beautifully
Katharine! 😘
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thank you kindly!!!!!!!
Comment from LJbutterfly
This poem is humorous, especially since I see some things that apply to me. I have so many favorite lines, but choose this at the top. "I'm thankful for my life, which Lord I so appreciate." I am now older than my mother lived to be, and I don't know how to act. I truly enjoyed the humor you presented here. Best wishes in the contest.
reply by the author on 03-Jul-2022
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This poem is humorous, especially since I see some things that apply to me. I have so many favorite lines, but choose this at the top. "I'm thankful for my life, which Lord I so appreciate." I am now older than my mother lived to be, and I don't know how to act. I truly enjoyed the humor you presented here. Best wishes in the contest.
Comment Written 03-Jul-2022
reply by the author on 03-Jul-2022
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Oh thank you so very much! I appreciate such a kind review! I do understand as I am 67 and was always so sure that because I look, act and am so much like mom, that I too would be gone at 63. I am finding out how many of us really aren't that old yet, but our mothers died young. Not sure how old you are, but through this poem, Pam and I figured out that we were born on the exact same day. It just blew me away. Anyway thank you again my lovely friend!
Comment from GARY MACLEAN
A very wise approach to life. Live each day on its own merit. Don't dwell on the past and don't let the future scare you. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen. There is nothing we can do to change fate. So, yes, don't think of it again.
Nice tickler to remind me to stay in the present.
reply by the author on 03-Jul-2022
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A very wise approach to life. Live each day on its own merit. Don't dwell on the past and don't let the future scare you. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen. There is nothing we can do to change fate. So, yes, don't think of it again.
Nice tickler to remind me to stay in the present.
Comment Written 03-Jul-2022
reply by the author on 03-Jul-2022
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Oh Gary, I was going to issue a missing person's report. I have missed you so much!! And thanks so much for the great comments
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I know, right? I have been wondering if your or your husbands' medical problems had succeeded in making you silent. I was so glad to see this offering I just had to communicate.
Ok now we know we both are alive and well, I can go back to reviewing. Have a wonderful day, Debi.
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I think I have posted lots of poems since I heard from you last, but they have all been blind contests. My first leg reconstruct and knee replacement is Thursday. Then my 2nd one is in Sept and Doctors are hopeful that I will be able to walk again by Christmas. I am so excited but they said to prepared it won't be easy. But I am determined to not be in a wheelchair any longer!
Before the lupus crippled me I used to walk 10,000 steps a day and you know me. I always write humerus when something big is happening. That's what that poem is about. fyi, there's another short poem I wrote you will get a kick out of from your childhood.
Comment from Ulla
Hi Debi, I liked this poem a lot and it did put a smile on my face. There's only one small problem. You have posted it in the prose section and the contest is for poetry.
Good luck in the contest. Ulla:)))
reply by the author on 03-Jul-2022
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Hi Debi, I liked this poem a lot and it did put a smile on my face. There's only one small problem. You have posted it in the prose section and the contest is for poetry.
Good luck in the contest. Ulla:)))
Comment Written 03-Jul-2022
reply by the author on 03-Jul-2022
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Thanks Ulla so much for your lovely review and very kind comments! I will go back and look at that because I posted as humor and non fiction so wonder why it's called prose? Thank you my sweet friend for info and review!
Comment from Wendy G
An excellent poem for the topic and you have expressed your thoughts creatively and well with a wonderful image. Expediency (and economics) will soon move us down the slippery slope from "voluntary assisted dying" to simply "assisted dying".
Best wishes for your entry.
Wendy
reply by the author on 04-Jul-2022
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An excellent poem for the topic and you have expressed your thoughts creatively and well with a wonderful image. Expediency (and economics) will soon move us down the slippery slope from "voluntary assisted dying" to simply "assisted dying".
Best wishes for your entry.
Wendy
Comment Written 03-Jul-2022
reply by the author on 04-Jul-2022
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Thank you so much Wendy. You are so kind and I appreciate your lovely comments. You're so right and is exactly why I added that part about if it's ok kill babies, why wouldn't they do the same with the elderly. Which you and I aren't to that point yet, but it is scary what is happening at least here in America. Thanks my dear friend as I appreciate your kind comments.
Comment from karenina
You have the right attitude Debi! What's the point of givng up or giving in? I have been known to walk through the splash park with my youngest grandson...Getting soaking wet.
"They" may see an eccentric woman but I feel young as can be!
My mom died at sixty.
I'm well beyond that and wake every morning determined to embrace all the days she never got to experience!
Below my bubbles? I'm in!
Waffle ball? I'll pitch!
I'm going down swinging....and not planning on it any time soon!
Love your humor here...
We can laugh or cry.
Let's laugh!
reply by the author on 03-Jul-2022
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You have the right attitude Debi! What's the point of givng up or giving in? I have been known to walk through the splash park with my youngest grandson...Getting soaking wet.
"They" may see an eccentric woman but I feel young as can be!
My mom died at sixty.
I'm well beyond that and wake every morning determined to embrace all the days she never got to experience!
Below my bubbles? I'm in!
Waffle ball? I'll pitch!
I'm going down swinging....and not planning on it any time soon!
Love your humor here...
We can laugh or cry.
Let's laugh!
Comment Written 03-Jul-2022
reply by the author on 03-Jul-2022
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Awe, thank you my beautiful friend for such a lovely review. And you make me yearn for the days that I could do that stuff with my grandchildren. The surgeon called me yesterday and said I should be excited because with these two leg constructs, and knees (second leg in Sept. if I heal well) then they are very hopeful that I will walk again by Christmas. So all those memories are there and coming back. And that is why I wrote this poem in a silly way because that keeps me smiling and my doc said not let anything stress me this week, but that seems to be my number one trigger for lupus flares. And I just can't be cancelled now. So thank you my lovely friend for the awesome review and reminding me of what I have missed and what I have to look forward again to. And you are not old at all, as I figured out your birthday and you are only a year older than me. Another thing we have in common about losing out mom's about the same age. I always feared becoming that age because I am like her in every way, so I had a feeling I was going to die at that age too. We made it through a lot of things my friend and I haven't even let being crippled get to me. As long as we still have the heart for it, we are still young. Thanks my friend! Been thinking about your hubby and praying for him. Hope they have it under control now.
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I am so excited for your upcoming surgery! I just truly believe the Lord will bless you with amazing success!
My love and prayers are with you...
You have TONS of people cheering by you on!
Thanks, dear soul, for asking about my husband.
He is doing much better!
Comment from Pam Lonsdale
"I may wake up dead" - great line:-)
I'm with you, girl. I don't feel old so I'm going to keep on doing what I love!
Another fun poem full of silly rhymes. Have fun in Neverland!
reply by the author on 02-Jul-2022
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"I may wake up dead" - great line:-)
I'm with you, girl. I don't feel old so I'm going to keep on doing what I love!
Another fun poem full of silly rhymes. Have fun in Neverland!
Comment Written 02-Jul-2022
reply by the author on 02-Jul-2022
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Awe Pam you are so sweet. Lol, my husband used to say, one of these days you're going to wake up dead, to friends when they were goofing around, giving each other a bad time. I am sure that you are younger than me, and by the way have I told you how much I love that picture of you? It is beautiful.
I am 67, but it seems the older I get the younger these ages seem. I thought my grandma looked so old at fifty, but the styles back them weren't any too flattering as I never saw her in a pair of pants and cute clothes until she was well into her eighties. Anyway thank you friend for such a lovely review and comments. Also, I just want to share something with you because I know that last winter I told you about some of my health issues. But this is something positive. On Thursday I will be having my first total reconstruct done on one of my legs and giving me a new knee at the same time. Then in Sept I will be having the second one done and they are hopeful that I will be walking again by Christmas. It has been so long since I have walked more than a couple steps with a walker. So I just wanted to share that with you as you have been so kind to me.
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I remember taking walks with my mom when she was 65 and thinking, "Wow, she really is old." I'm going to be 68 in October and I'm still running marathons. I think the benefits of exercise and diet have helped us to stay "young" longer; plus, our mothers were never encouraged to do things like run and lift weights. Those things were meant for men, but those things keep us young.
I'm so happy to hear that you will be having surgeries to correct issues with your leg and knees. I assume you're having knee replacements? I know many people who have had that done and are so thankful that they did. Be patient - you will be frustrated at times and you absolutely MUST do what the physical therapist tells you to do, even if it hurts in the beginning. If you're getting around without a walker by Christmas, that will be the best present ever! I'm sure there will be a few poems about your experiences:-) I look forward to reading them and hearing how you're doing.
Have a wonderful holiday weekend. My husband and I have no real plans - just hanging out with our two very upset cats who don't like fireworks.
Take care, my friend.
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Thanks Pam, I used to walk 10,000 steps everyday before the lupus attacked the bones in my legs but will be getting like a form of artificial bones in my legs. And they will be straight, and I will join you on one of your marathons someday!
My birthday is also in October and will be 68 on the 19th. When is yours?
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Guess when my birthday is.
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October 19, 1954???
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Or Halloween?
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No! October 19th:-)
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YES!!
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Are you kidding me?
OMGosh,it's rare to find a friend with the same day, but the same year! Awesome!
Have you ever known anyone born on the exact same day as you before??
I have not! That is so cool!
Lol, I just want to tell everyone we know!
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I had a friend here in St. Augustine (she moved to South Carolina 3 years ago) who was born on the same day. We were inseparable for 4 years, as she and I both ran with the same group, liked the same foods, drank the same drinks, were married to our husband for the same number of years . . . And we both loved photography - we would go out once a week together, early, and take pictures all over downtown. We even went on a vacation together to New England - she had never been and I lived there for 26 years, so I was the tour guide for all of my favorite places in every New England state. I wrote a short story about what happened to our relationship, but I haven't been able to finalize it because it's painful for me. Long story.
Anyway, I think we should buy lottery tickets on our birthday - I just think it would be lucky somehow:-) Maybe we'll both become millionaires.
Comment from Jannypan (Jan)
Well, Debi, time to stand up and shout, "Don't call me old,
I can and will outdo anyone who does!" Your rhyming couplets
were fun to read and were filled with great imagery. I could see
and hear you saying every word of this poem. The picture is
perfect to illustrate one is only as old as s/he feels to themselves.
So, get out there and live it up with the best of them.
Best wishes in the contest, Jan
reply by the author on 02-Jul-2022
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Well, Debi, time to stand up and shout, "Don't call me old,
I can and will outdo anyone who does!" Your rhyming couplets
were fun to read and were filled with great imagery. I could see
and hear you saying every word of this poem. The picture is
perfect to illustrate one is only as old as s/he feels to themselves.
So, get out there and live it up with the best of them.
Best wishes in the contest, Jan
Comment Written 02-Jul-2022
reply by the author on 02-Jul-2022
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Hahahaha! You are so much fun Jan. Gosh I would love to be with you if anyone ever tried to call us old. I can deny it and you can tell them off. Now that would be fun. Thanks for the awesome review and fun comments my friend.
Comment from Verna Cole Mitchell
I love your thoughts on aging. I'm there, I do declare. No matter if you stay in bed and hide somewhere else, It will find you and do a number on you!
This was fun-hope it does well in the contest.
reply by the author on 02-Jul-2022
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I love your thoughts on aging. I'm there, I do declare. No matter if you stay in bed and hide somewhere else, It will find you and do a number on you!
This was fun-hope it does well in the contest.
Comment Written 02-Jul-2022
reply by the author on 02-Jul-2022
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Thanks so much Verna. It was a lot of fun writing it as it seems to get too much if a person always takes things too serious. My husband used to goof around with friends and tell them, "one of these days you're going to wake up dead." As stupid as it sounds, it seemed to work well in the poem. I so appreciate your lovely review and sharing some of your thoughts on the subject. Thanks again for the lovely review and kind comments.
Comment from LateBloomer
Hi Debi, this poem is wonderful. I can feel the humor, and it made me laugh. I especially liked:
I've always been the type to run away from things l dread
If I get old, I'll stay in bed and I may wake up dead
(D, any day that we wake up, and we're not looking at "wood," it's a very good day.)
I also loved your upbeat ending:
So I won't think of it again, and I'm not going to budge
(SOTU, a positive attitude is half the battle, and don't you dare budge. You are perfect just the way you are.)
One question ... Medicare stop treating me
(Did you mean "stop" or stopped? Just curious)
A fine poem. I wish that I had a Sixer. Well done. As this is a contest entry, I wish you good luck. LateBloomer
reply by the author on 02-Jul-2022
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Hi Debi, this poem is wonderful. I can feel the humor, and it made me laugh. I especially liked:
I've always been the type to run away from things l dread
If I get old, I'll stay in bed and I may wake up dead
(D, any day that we wake up, and we're not looking at "wood," it's a very good day.)
I also loved your upbeat ending:
So I won't think of it again, and I'm not going to budge
(SOTU, a positive attitude is half the battle, and don't you dare budge. You are perfect just the way you are.)
One question ... Medicare stop treating me
(Did you mean "stop" or stopped? Just curious)
A fine poem. I wish that I had a Sixer. Well done. As this is a contest entry, I wish you good luck. LateBloomer
Comment Written 02-Jul-2022
reply by the author on 02-Jul-2022
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I thank you Margaret for your sweet and fun review and comments. My hbotu used to say that phrase, "one of these days you're gonna wake up dead," when he was teasing someone who was picking on him. I did mean to say Medicare stop, but maybe should have put a comma after Medicare as I'm telling them to quit requiring all those stupid questionnaires every Dr trip that make you sound senile. I appreciate you wishing you had a sizer, but your thought means just as much. Thank you again my awesome friend!
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Hi Debi, thought that I responded last night??? I get it now. Xo. SOTU
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