Liz Kurkjian-Henry, Author at Better After 50

It’s Not About the Hairdresser It’s The Journey

Liz Kurkjian-HenryMarch 1, 2021

Liz. I don’t know why you insist on making that drive every month. There’s gotta be plenty of good hairdressers down here.” . And so begins my husband’s and my monthly-I won’t call it an argument-more of a debate- about my refusal to give up my every-four-week cut and color appointment on Newbury Street in Boston even though we moved to the Southeastern Connecticut shoreline 3 years ago....

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Our Summer of Love

Liz Kurkjian-HenryFebruary 14, 2021

On our 20th anniversary I gave my husband an anniversary card: on the front was an old black and white photograph of a Timex watch. Inside it read “It’s taken a...

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A Rookie Once Again

Liz Kurkjian-HenryNovember 30, 2020

So 2 years away from retirement I was being laid off from the mentoring position I’d held for the past 7 years, one of 14 elite, well-trained, experienced educators who mentored first-year teachers during their very rough and tumble rookie season. I would have a job somewhere, yes, but it was up to me to find it. WTF indeed. So I went back to my roots....

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Thanksgiving Untethered

Liz Kurkjian-HenryNovember 23, 2020

“I’m sorry guys but we’re going to have to cut you.” “What? We’ve been in every production every year.” “I know. I’m sorry. But our funding has been dimin...

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Sitting On The Edge Trying My Best

Liz Kurkjian-HenryNovember 2, 2020

I find myself sighing a lot lately. Big heavy sighs that can’t seem to expunge the helplessness and hopelessness that seem to envelope me more than any other time in my life. I love Autumn. I love the cooler days and nights. I even love the change of time and the early darkness. But everything is so different this year that the things I’ve always embraced I find myself dreading....

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I Want a Do-Over: Celebrating My Body After 50

Liz Kurkjian-HenryOctober 26, 2020

“Oh look at her. That’s a nice big side of bacon.” I heard the guys chortle behind me as I walked up the beach walkway. I had tried to avoid walking in front of them in my frayed cut-off jean shorts but somehow I’d failed. And in that way that men felt entitled to comment on a woman’s body...

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My Ativan Summer

Liz Kurkjian-HenryOctober 19, 2020

Have you ever taken Ativan? I’d been given the prescription right after my diagnosis of oral cancer. It takes the edge off of anxiety and calms jangled nerves. “Are you claustrophobic?” was one of the first questions I’d been asked. I am, not to the point where I can’t ride an elevator but I don’t like crowds and hate anything covering my face. That was unfortunate since I had to be fitted......

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The Show Will Go On!

Liz Kurkjian-HenryJune 29, 2020

By now everyone has a post-Covid fantasy: the ‘ I can’t wait to (fill in the blank) when this is all over’. Here’s mine: Cue the lights, raise the curtain, the ...

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First Meal Out Post Covid Quarantine

Liz Kurkjian-HenryJune 22, 2020

I honestly thought I was ready. Last Friday was one of those perfect early-summer evenings: sunny, warm-but not too warm- a wisp of a breeze. A perfect night to...

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Rear view of a senior Caucasian woman at the beach in the sun, wearing a sun hat and walking barefoot in the sand and smiling, with sea and blue sky in the background

Accept the Limitations/Embrace the Happy

Liz Kurkjian-HenryJune 1, 2020

‘Stay in the plank. Stay in the plank. 5-4-3-2-1 and… come down.’ ‘Two more miles. One more mile. 300 yards, 200, 100, you made it!’ 5th one this year. On tr...

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If I Get Sick Will I Be Passed Over For A Younger Person?

Liz Kurkjian-HenryApril 27, 2020

I can hear you. “Patient is Female. Over 60 . Immuno -suppressed due to complications from arthritis drugs, recurrent pneumonia, lung issues Survival is doubtful. Umm.. no. Next” And so I will be passed over for the ventilator. The fact of the matter is that I’m closer to 70 than 60....

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