Graceful Aging Blog

An Introduction

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Invitation

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We invite you to submit a guest post and here’s why:

The Graceful Aging blog allows you to explore and share your deeper ideas, perspectives, and experiences of aging.The topics are endless:

  • How has aging changed your perceptions and interactions with the people you meet? Are you different now than 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? 

  • If you are working again is it because you need to or want to?

  • what does your day look like as a retired person? 

  • What changes in your body and mind are confusing, 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?

  • Have you found it difficult tomake friends? Is loneliness a part of your life?

  • What kind of advice could you give for the generations following you?

 

These kinds of topics are fascinating and eye-opening. The blogs can be

funny, serious, thoughtful, thought-provoking, and always

respectful. Your  stories, complete in their richness, need to be told.

Thank you! 

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.