Aging | Beth Byrnes

Winged flowers

Posted on September 2, 2016 20 Comments

When I walk through our family room in the morning, someone says in a bright and hopeful voice, “I love you”. No, not my spouse who is usually at work by this time, but my companion Psyche. And she means it. Recently, I saw a study on what makes for longevity. It was conducted by […]

Hostel California

Posted on January 22, 2016 14 Comments

I did not want to write about this at all. I had next week’s post (wait for it) in progress. And then Glenn Frey died. It was just impossible to ignore his passing and write an anodyne post in a time when two other performers I cared about passed away as well. It seems my […]

Moment to movement

Posted on November 28, 2014 24 Comments

As I said last week, plus ça change, plus ça change, LOL. If you would just as soon avoid having to think about more weighty topics today, come back next time for something perhaps more lighthearted. 😉 Last weekend I had a troubling discussion with a woman I met while waiting on a long, long line of people at a super sale, buying […]

Oblivio Oblivias Obliviat

Posted on October 3, 2014 18 Comments

I am no Latin scholar, despite having studied it for four years in high school. I took Latin because I planned to be a psychologist or psychiatrist and as such it was recommended that one of our two required languages be either Latin or German. One of my quirks is that I have to love […]

Thought proof

Posted on December 8, 2013 30 Comments

This past week CNN has been airing a special program about three people who apparently died and were brought back to life. All three had experiences of an afterlife that they viewed as being heaven. In all three cases, the physical death was for an extended period of time and they had similar experiences of […]