Diane
I am very bad at learning lessons. I am getting better at identifying lessons and repeating them – maybe some day I will actually learn! This week’s imperfectly learned lessons were on the importance of keeping up with physiotherapy exercises and using all the vegetables in the crisper before they turn to mush.
Cate
Chewing on peony leaves make cats puke like it’s a frat party.
Elan
Life lessons keep coming. Example:
Lesson 1: If you write down everyone’s birthdays in one place, they are easier to remember.
Lesson 2: If you buy or make a bunch of cards, then address and stamp them all on New Year’s Day, they are easier to send on time throughout the year.
Lesson 3: If you address, date, and personalize every card, they are more likely to show timeliness and care for each specific person.
Lesson 4: If you forget to mail people you love with the cards you carefully dated and personalized, a few years you’ll have a bunch of out of date and wrong-addressed cards with stamps you can’t re-use.
Nicole
Middle age comes with (both) comfort in your body while being with the one you love, and, at the same time, sensations that make you wonder if you have an arthritic toe.
Sam
You can no longer eat anything whenever you want at 60. Coffee might be best before 3 pm, for example. (ARGH!) Full fat cream might be best never at all. (Remember you don’t have a gall bladder.) And let’s not even talk about ice cream. (Thank God for the Ninja Creami.)
Tracy
As I settle into a new space that has involved a major downsize for both of us and a merging of belongings, some cherished and others just acquired along the way, I have experienced a major lesson on the “too much stuff” front that will forever change my approach to purchasing new things. For example, we now have a one-in-one-out policy for clothing, shoes, and mugs (yes, mugs!). If either of us buys something in these categories, at least one thing in the same category must go.
