Graceful Aging Blog
An Introduction
and
Invitation
We Welcome Your Insights and Perspectives
We invite you to submit a guest post:
The Graceful Aging blog allows you to explore and share the deeper ideas, perspectives, and experiences of aging .The topics are endless.
How has aging changed your perceptions and interactions with all the people you meet? Are you different now then when you were young?
What, if any, were your expectations of being this age when you were younger, and how have those expectations been met, or are they different now?
Are you working because you need to?
what does your day look like as a retired person?
What does your body and mind feel like? What changes are overwhelming or accepted?
Are you taking care of grandchildren long after you thought childcare was done?
Have you stretched your imagination and tried new things, new hobbies, new interests?
Is it difficult to make friends? Is loneliness a part of you life?
What kind of advice could you give for those 7 generations following us?
These topics are fascinating and eye-opening. The essays can be funny, serious, thoughtful, and thought-provoking, and always respectful. Our stories, complete in their richness, need to be told.
Please keep essays to 500 words or less. You don’t have to be a published author. You just need to want to share your experiences of your acquired wisdom. We do request that you set personal religious or political views aside.
All articles are reviewed and edited by Lynda McCullough. You can Submit completed essays or questions to her at Lynda.McCullough@uchealth.org
Lynda McCullough is a health educator with UCHealth’s Aspen Club, an organization that provides health education and related services to people 50 and older. She is the daughter of a physician and physical therapist, and she has long been interested in how we can find a sense of physical and emotional wellbeing in the modern world. She explored mental health and health careers and wrote on these subjects for various organizations before moving from Washington, DC, to Colorado and becoming a yoga teacher and educator.
Lynda is a runner, hiker, and yoga practitioner, and she loves to go on mountain adventures with her husband, climbing mountains and stringing up a hammock to relax while he fly fishes. Her other interests are music and studying the ways yoga affects the brain, nervous system, and mental health.