OUR ARCHIVES : November 2011

Searching for a Geriatric Internist

I had an internist once. But when I turned 66, he gave me the bad news. “You’re old now,” he said gravely, “And you’re not going to live forever. What’s more, your veins are too small, your skin is wrinkly, and it seems like you’re always complaining about some ache or pain. The dollars and [...]

The Green Geezer (In honor of Earth Day)

Having spent our youth polluting the earth by preparing red-dyed Jell-O and washing our V-8 Chevys with garden hoses, we geezers now want to change our ways. It’s time to go green!   We want to be environmentally correct so when we are lowered into the brown dirt, the sky above us will be blue. [...]

Senior Discount Please

My eyes are drawn to the word “free” like peanut to butter. But this article is not about free. It’s about free’s distant cousin, discount. Well, it’s actually discount’s older brother, senior discount. When I first became a geezer, I began noticing the words “senior discount.” Of course, I wasn’t interested. “I’m not really a [...]