Today has been one of those rare days that I have spent totally alone. Dotty is up north helping her kids paint the new house and I have not had phone calls or emails from anyone. Hard to imagine that I lived here for eight years alone because it seems so strange now. A good strange, but strange.
I have always craved more time alone than I ever had. I like the freedom of it, the quiet of it, the peace of it. I wouldn't want to experience it every day, however. I wonder about all the older single people who do live alone; I can see how easy it would be to become eccentric.
I am glad that I had the bright idea to share this house with Dotty, even though we occasionally get on each other's nerves. Sometimes I think I should start a national movement to encourage older single people to share their homes. Think of all the positive that would come of that.
How would I start such a movement? First, write up our story and see if the media would be interested. Put together a presentation and take it out to groups of seniors. Write letters to talk shows suggesting this as a topic. Put together a fact sheet on the benefits...financial, legal, etc.
I just may do this! Good idea or not?
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- Greatest joy; Amelia & Greta. Proudest accomplishment: the men my sons are. the only things that matter: health, family and friends.
1 comment:
definitely a good idea. this country is about to have alot more seniors than solutions for seniors, and yours is one that people can do without being 'consumers' of heath-care solutions. however, I have no idea how you would offer up this solution other than as a magazine article or book.
Plus, you would need cold, hard statistics both on what happens to the average single senior (woman?) and then compared to you two.
Also, given that you both still work and have a higher than average household income, your results are probably anything but 'typical'. I say dive in and find out!
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