Lessons on Aging from My Elderly Parents

How I’ve learned to grow older with humor, hope, faith, and resilience

Not my parents, but symbolic of them. Photo by StockSnap/Pixabay

In the summer before 7th grade, Tommy O’Hara ruined everything.

Tommy’s floppy dark hair, scratchy voice, cool clothes, and braces, (I dug a preteen boy with braces), drew me in and I had crushed on him through most of elementary school. When the boys’…