I love being 80! I love where I am in my life! I love observing the shift in people's energies when I proudly say I am 80. Suddenly, people's expectations for my behavior plummet to new lows. I love flying in the face of myths and generalizations. Like the one...

Yikes! My first inclination when Marcia asked me to write a piece on Giving for Vallarta Mirror was to fearfully say, "Thanks, but NO thanks." While I love to write, I babble in print. I have too much on my plate at the moment, and this is the perfect...