Category:Aging

Attribution: Torvild, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hands it off to the keeper today as he and Phyllis watched the Stoughton High School dancers perform a morning show at Vista West. It was fantastic, and it made the keeper think of his dear old Norwegian mother, and to …
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Attribution: Michel, Carl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, allows the keeper a memory exercise that takes him back to his arrival on the UW campus fresh out of a three-year Army stint that included a year of Korean combat duty where sleeping in trenches and bunkers was the …
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Attribution: Bruce Tuten from Savannah, Georgia, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that after the keeper reported on the lunch that he and Phyllis enjoyed with 103-year-old Hilda and 99-year-old Sally, there has been some interest by others to join the next lunch meeting so they …
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Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s report of a Vista West “lunch for the ages” that he had the distinct privilege of attending as the only male: There was Hilda at 103, Sally at 99, and Phyllis a mere child at 83; and then there was …
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Attribution: Photo by Sonja Langford on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, undergoing a routine “insurance” exam was asked, among other things, to draw a clock face showing the time at 8:20.  The resulting diagram was satisfactory to examiner Rich, though he remarked that the big hand would have traveled off 8 and …
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Attribution: Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper has attained that age that by some standards makes him too old to vote, a nuisance on the roadways, cause for elevator delay, deaf to commands to “get out of the way” and unable to sort outrageous lies from the …
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Attribution: http://www.pdimages.com/web9.htm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper, gets ready for an age milestone, he notes that nobody’s birthday is possible without their having been a conception day nine months previously. Just why conception day is not celebrated, and is even pretty much ignored, …
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Attribution: Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes along with the keeper, the measure of a good day when you are almost as old as the wheel:          *Getting out of bed and standing up.          *Showering, shaving, dressing and putting on shoes, especially putting on shoes.          *Turning on the coffee maker that …
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