How to Deal With Getting Older (When You Still Feel Like You)
I got my own Medicare card this year. Not a parent’s. Not a spouse’s. Mine. I laminated it before I even used it once. Here’s the thing nobody tells you about how to deal with…
Author: Jenny Floats
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Life has a way of knocking the wind out of us, This is me getting it back.
I live in Florida, and somewhere after 60 I got back in the pool and remembered what it feels like to show up for yourself. I tell stories from the pool. Real ones. Some funny, some heavy, most of them wet. And at the end I always want to know if any of it sounds familiar to you.
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I Almost Said No to the Dark Shadows 60th Anniversary Reunion
Two weeks before I turned 65, something shifted in me. I couldn’t have told you exactly what it was if you’d asked me that day. It wasn’t a single moment, more like a slow turning,…
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Going Back to Your Childhood Home: What I Found After 50 Years
I’ve been playing a game with myself for as long as I can remember. I try to picture a place, down to the smallest detail, every wall, every room. If I can’t remember something, was…
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What Growing Up on a Farm in the 1970s Taught Me
I can smell bullshit from a mile away. I mean that literally, and it turns out, figuratively too. That particular talent traces straight back to growing up on a farm in the 1970s, and by…
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Feeling Invisible: I Walked to the Pool and Nobody Looked Up
Am I the only one who feels invisible sometimes? Like you move through your whole life, people all around you, and somehow they just don’t see you. Don’t notice you. You kind of blend into…
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Permission to Be Young Again: We Saw Donny Osmond in Las Vegas and My Sister Became 12 Again
Have you ever wanted to do something, but held back because you were afraid people might judge you, might think it was silly, might think you were being ridiculous for wanting it? This is a…
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Doing Things Alone After 60: I Ended Up With a Stranger’s Babies at Aquatica
Last weekend my husband was out of town, I had nothing else going on, and I have an annual pass to Aquatica. So I went by myself. Doing things alone after 60 still feels a…
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Finding Yourself After 60: My Story in the Water
I’ve lived around water most of my life. Oceans mostly, for a long stretch of it. But I never really swam in them. Too many things bigger than me out there, and I’ve always liked…
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Scared But Doing It Anyway: I Lived in Hawaii 4 Years and the Ocean Scared Me the Whole Time
Long before pools and lazy rivers and any of this channel, there was Hawaii. I lived there for four years in my thirties, not a vacation, an actual chapter of my life with an apartment…
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Finding My Biological Father After 57 Years of Family Secrets
I want to ask you something before I tell you this one. Do you have any secrets you keep? Does your family have one, the kind nobody’s allowed to talk about, the kind that just…
