by Dorothy Greco | Jul 3, 2021 | Aging, Articles, Perennial Gen
What does it look like to cultivate healthy friendships in midlife and beyond and is it really worth the effort? When most of us were growing up, friendship were more narrowly defined. Our extended family likely lived within a one-day drive. Friendship circles were...
by Dorothy Greco | Mar 31, 2021 | Articles, Perennial Gen
I anticipated every symptom and side-effect of menopause. Except anger. Up to this point in my life, I managed to (mostly) avoid expressing anger. Especially with men. Menopause changed that. The misogynistic micro-aggressions that I had tolerated for the past fifty...
by Dorothy Greco | Apr 24, 2020 | Articles, Earth Care/Stewardship, Perennial Gen
I wish I had a photo of myself on the first Earth Day fifty years ago. I was nine, had long brown pigtails, and probably wore a homemade, tie-dyed shirt. I tried to motivate my classmates to join me in a celebratory clean-up but instead walked alone along the river...
by Dorothy Greco | Dec 23, 2019 | Articles, Perennial Gen
When Zechariah and Mary had their personal encounters with the angel Gabriel, they both ask How. How exactly is my wife going to conceive when she is past her child bearing years? And how can this be when I am a virgin? That same question receives two very...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 9, 2019 | Aging, Articles, Perennial Gen
I expected the hot flashes and night sweats. I braced for the mood swings. What I wasn’t prepared for was the anger: the white-hot, surging-through-my-veins anger. Offenses that I had successfully overlooked for the previous five decades pricked this vein, including:...
by Dorothy Greco | Apr 27, 2019 | Aging, Articles, Perennial Gen
One Sunday morning in October it became clear that after fifteen years of service to our church, it was time for my husband to hand in his resignation. Though we had seen this coming, the realization gutted us. Five months later, he packed up his office and we said a...
