A comment from John on yesterday's blog put me in mind of something that should follow a post about an Invasion of Granny Accusers. (Thanks, John!)

My oldest child was born just ten days after my 18th birthday, so we are close enough in age to be siblings in some families ... the gap between my second and third child is 32 years, so 18 is an eye-blink ... and we look very much alike, although she is... more

So, there I was, standing on a pretty pathway in the middle of Pamplemousses Gardens watching Cj dash away a few meters to give her space to run as fast as her little feet could fly back into our arms with a squeal and a giggle, when some geezer Brit invades my world with a brash and strident, "Are these your grandchildren?"

Okay. So she wasn't brash or strident ... she was actually a bit shy and over-compensatingly... more

There's no doubt that I live in a rarefied climate and that life in the 'real' world is on a daily basis much different than the one passed here on this little rock in the middle of a big, blue sea.

One significant difference is the fact that the total population of Seychelles is only 85,000 which makes us roughly the same as a small town in America. There's more distance involved, so we're not so much in each other's pockets, but everyone does read the same newspapers, listen to the same radio station and watch... more

There are times when I can do little but sit back, scratch my head and wonder how in the heck so much time has passed ... and so quickly.

Birthdays ... and I have one coming up ... always prompt this.

"Fifty-six! How did I get to be fifty-six, when I'm quite sure I was thirty-five just the other day."

(Of course, that line of thought completely ignores the fact that I have a daughter about to turn thirty-eight, but that's really beside the point.)

Today, however, is where the rubber meets... more

A couple of stories in the news about older parents need talking about today. The first, this one that asks the question, "How old is too old?".

It's grandparents raising a child this time, and they must not have been spring chicken-ish when the son who is dad to the little one was little, as they're now 89 and 86, and have been parenting the child off and on almost since birth a... more

Thanks to suggestions from readers I've started posting some questions and answers on older parents. The introduction is here. SHB: Many older adoptive parents worry that their age will be an embarrassment to their kids when those kids hit the teen years. Any comment?

Kris: All parents are an embarrassment... more

As I mentioned briefly, the 29th of May brought the debut of my assistant, Catherina''s baby. (I'd give the link for my short announcement, but apparently it was so short that there's no way I can call the story up to get a link. Strange ... )

Holly, for one, has been patiently awaiting details, so here are some:

The little... more

Could it be that we Boomers are not less healthy than the generations that preceded us, but only just as healthy as, and that that comes as a big disappointment to a bunch of folks as used to excelling as we are? So, before we go getting all depressed about the fact that we're going to die someday and that we're most likely not going to beat all records for hanging around longer and fitter than any group of people in the history of the world... more

There has been the suggestion that perhaps it's not that those of us in our generation, the Boomers, are really sicker than previous generations, but that we expect to be so much healthier than everyone who came before us, that as a generation we're so accustomed to being the best and the brightest and having the newest and shiniest that we can't live up to our own image of what we're supposed to feel like at 55 or 60.

It's sometimes frighteningly... more

A blog in the Huffington Post caught my eye this morning with the title, "Are Baby Boomers Sicker Than Their Parents?"

Written in reaction to an article in the Washington Post that looked at a study funded by the National Institute on Aging,... more