By Nancy Roen For the past three years, at one time or another, I have navigated our town with crutches, poles, stationary and wheeled walkers, and at best, with unsteady […]
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Mature Content: Over the hill and out to lunch? Not really!
By Ron Kokish I’ve always believed that deeds define us and respect must be earned. As a lad, I didn’t understand why I was expected to defer to older people. […]
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Mature Content: To plan or not to plan, that is the question
By Ron Kokish I met Niki when I was 21. She was 19. She enjoyed our first date, so when I asked her to a toga party the following week, […]
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Mature Content: Goners
By Ron Kokish Carbondale Age Friendly Community Initiative This columnist may have gotten a little mired in dying over the last few months, so this month, I’m going to talk […]
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Mature Content: Kristi’s Legacy
Kristi Nicholls was a Carbondalian, psychotherapist, triathlete, CAFCI steering committee member and mother of four. On Oct. 30, she legally and peacefully ended her life, with her four adult children […]
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Mature Content: Whose life is it, anyway? — Third and final part
By Ron Kokish “A time to love and a time to die” … Ecclesiastes 3:2 At 85, my father was failing badly enough for his doctor to insist he stop […]
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Human-Nature Garden to land on Rio Grande
The Rio Grande Trail only gets more marvelous with age — much like Carbondale residents — and new installments along the ARTway continue its beautification. The Carbondale Age Friendly Community […]
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Mature Content: It (still) takes a village
By Dorothea Farris This month’s columnist came to Carbondale in 1960 when there was a population of 612. Since then, she has served on no less than 40 boards, commissions, […]
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Mature Content: A miracle in the Bronx
By Ron Kokish Of course there’s a Santa Claus. I saw him up close in the Bronx, in 1959, in the employee bathroom at Alexander’s Department Store. We stood silently, […]
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Mature Content: Not-so-special needs
The Carbondale (AARP) Age-Friendly Community Initiative (CAFCI) works to help make Carbondale friendlier for people of all ages. Sue Zislis, a retired physical therapist, is a member of Senior Matters’ […]