Beating Time at Its Own Game: Life Begins at Sixty – Guest Post by Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Sometimes the big barriers in life aren't abject poverty, dreaded disease, or death. Sometimes it's the subtle ones set upon us by time and place. The ones that can't be seen and can't be acknowledged because we don't know they are there. They creep up silently on padded feet and, if we sense them at all, we choose not to turn and face them. The decade of the 50s was a time when barriers like these faced those with dark skin, those who lived in closed religious communities, and those who...