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Truth and Humor of Life After 65:
The Poetry of Jane Seskin
Jane Seskin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the author of 13 books. She’s written nonfiction articles and poetry online and for national magazines and journals (including 20 poems published in Cosmopolitan Magazine, 5 poems in Woman’s Day, and 18 posts in the NY Times Metropolitan Diary). She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Today's poem is reprinted with permission from her latest book of poetry, “Older Wiser Shorter: The Truth and Humor of Life After 65.” Seskin’s poetry is authentic, funny, insightful, quirky, and heartfelt. A Reading Guide to the poems is also included and will inspire further reflection and discussion for book and women's groups. Newly revised with 26 additional poems!
You can purchase Jane's new poetry book on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.
agebuzz Asks
This Week’s Reader Poll: In response to the April 16th reader poll on social media, there’s no doubt that for many agebuzz readers, logging on to one or two social media sites multiple times a day is a regular activity. In fact, about ⅓ of respondents said they do log on to one or two sites multiple times during each day, while about 23% of you said you only log onto one site, but do so several times a day. Another 16% of you stated that you are on many social media sites for multiple hours each day. No doubt, these statistics reflect what is widely documented: Unlike stereotypes about seniors, today’s older adults have wholeheartedly embraced the digital world, and a large majority are frequent social media users, especially Facebook. Some of you revealed that it’s become a bit of an addiction. In contrast, others expressed gratitude for the experience of keeping track of friends, finding out useful information about hobbies, or for entertainment or distraction from boredom. When asked which sites you favor, Facebook was the overwhelming winner. For those of you on Facebook, please make sure to like and follow agebuzz posts on Facebook, and share them with your friends. We are grateful to all of our Facebook followers and appreciate it when our posts are shared with others who might find them useful!
This Week’s agebuzz Reader Poll: How do you feel about Social Security?
- Social Security is my only retirement income & I’m grateful to receive it each month
- Social Security is just one source of income for me, but I’m grateful for it
- Social Security does not sufficiently cover my basic expenses
- I don’t rely on my Social Security, but it does cover some modest expenses for me
- I wish I had waited longer to start taking Social Security so that I would receive more
- Social Security needs to have a bigger Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) each year
- I’m worried about recent problems at Social Security and whether it will survive
- We need to fix the funding gap for Social Security, so it’s available for future generations
- Some combination of the above responses
- Other (Please describe)
Bonus: What’s your biggest complaint about the current Social Security system?
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"It’s not true that older people can’t change. I’ve had many, many people — older people — come up after a lecture and say, ‘Well, Jane, I’d given up, but I promise you I’ll do my bit.”
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