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By Renee Langmuir   Recently, I attended the 50th Anniversary of my beloved ballet school, The Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet. The event was marked with performances of alumni who have gone on to professional dance companies and speeches from key players in the school’s history.   The first speech, by…

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”

By Nancy Peckenham   Back in the winter of 2018, I had a revelation. I was spending long days with my 100-year-old mother at her assisted living residence and witnessed how many residents in their 80s and 90s led multi-faceted, upbeat lives. Tired stereotypes of older people fell away before…

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.”

We’ve all dealt with some of the hard truths and realities of what growing older can mean, both the bad and the good. From our bodies slowing down to our discovery of the positives that can arise, we each experience moments of both despair and wonderment, sometimes at the same…

If you’ve been lucky, you were not affected by the COVID upsurge this summer, and perhaps the Flu and RSV have not been on your radar since last year’s vaccination push. But now is the time to check in to see whether you need to be revaccinated for any of…