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agebuzz newsletter: February 27th: Included This Week: Breathe Easy đŸ«

February 27th, 2025

February 27, 2025

February 27th, 2025

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This Week's Featured Posts

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Guest Blog Post

Travel

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: Poems.” 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!

agebuzz Asks

This Week’s Reader Poll: In response to the February 20th reader poll regarding “post-mortem planning,” almost half of the respondents answered that they have executed a will and appointed an executor for their estate. While that number is in keeping with general statistics for US adults, typically those who are over 55 are more likely to have executed a will and fully Ÿ of those over age 72 typically have a will. While our data doesn’t provide us with the ages of our respondents, we will just note that if you don’t have a will your state has the authority to distribute your assets following state law, rather than what you might prefer. Something to think about, even if you don’t have a large sum of money or real estate to pass on. Several of you mentioned concerns that there is no family to carry out your wishes, or you’re not sure whether your wishes will in fact be respected. That may be all the more reason to make clear in a legal document what you would like to happen and to plan in advance to make that happen. For example, you should alert the person you are appointing as executor that they will have that role and make sure they are willing to carry it out. And if you have no close family to serve in that capacity, then all the more reason to legally appoint a friend or colleague to ensure your wishes are respected. So consider this gentle encouragement to get your affairs in order- and put them in writing. For some guidance on available help online, click here.

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Erik Erikson, a Danish-German-Jewish child psychoanalyst considered one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the 20th century