Archive - A Considerable Age

November 2024

Aging As Best I Can

These days, before I leave the house, I make my bed and straighten up things in the kitchen, in case I don’t come home.

Nov 24 •

The Other Frank McCourt

In the summer of 1964, my Uncle Frank came home to Dublin after living for a half-century in America.

Nov 17 •

I Shouldn't Be Writing This

I was getting ready to send you this week's story—a charming one about an Irish Yank—but I couldn't do it.

Nov 10 •

Alice Goldbloom

When Less is More

My longtime grocery store has closed.

Nov 3 •

October 2024

Joseph, our departmental messenger, was a gold medal contender in the swivel chair sleep Olympics, during my tenure in the mid-1990s at the African…

Oct 27 •

Does One Tire of One’s Beating Heart?

My mother smiled indulgently when I polished up my trumpet and travelled with my university’s Varsity Band to football games in other cities where we…

Oct 20 •

Forgetting and Letting Go

I keep wondering about giving aging a voice, not a whine but a voice in the literary sense.

Oct 13 •

The Day I Mistook a Woman for a Hatstand

RP Moments in Time

Oct 6 •

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