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#Middlebury #Seniors Has your Meals on Wheels expanded their service? In a number of areas, the program has taken on more volunteers or widened the area they cover, having received ... Continue Reading →

Pandemic causes many event cancellations

#Middlebury #Seniors Life might be slowly getting back to normal, but a number of things we anticipated won’t be happening now. Here are some of them: The expired prescription-drug ... Continue Reading →

Help fill the hours with an e-reader

#Middlebury #Seniors I don’t often recommend specific products in this column, but there’s one that many of us could use right now: a Kindle. The Kindle is a handheld reading ... Continue Reading →

Are we bored yet?

#Middlebury #Seniors Being bored isn’t good, especially for seniors. We need to keep our brain cells active, even if we can’t get out of the house for any mental stimulation ... Continue Reading →

Some time-filling plans fail

#Middlebury #Seniors How are you doing with your time-filling activities now that so many of us are locked up inside and told not to go out? Have you been able to complete any of your ... Continue Reading →

Trip to supermarket brings new dangers

#Middlebury #Seniors It occurred to me the other day that I haven’t been eating right. It’s been difficult to find food in my stores, and it’s been difficult to work ... Continue Reading →

Stay healthy while waiting for things to get back to normal

#Middlebury #Seniors Surely our world will be back to normal this summer … right? Surely we’ll be able to get out of the house without fearing every person who comes near ... Continue Reading →

Stay fed, stay safe

#Middlebury #Seniors Life has certainly changed recently. Depending on where you live, it might have changed a lot. Stay home if you’re a senior. Stay home if you have a medical ... Continue Reading →

Do you dare to go on your vacation?

#Middlebury #Seniors #Travel #Coronavirus You budgeted all winter, building up the cash that would take you on vacation this summer. And now all your plans are in doubt. Now we have ... Continue Reading →

Stay put to stay out of harm’s way

#Middlebury #Seniors A show of hands, please: How many of us are getting nervous since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that seniors and those with medical conditions ... Continue Reading →