It’s been two years since my 90th birthday, and I realize that being seriously this senior is bringing changes in ways I hadn’t anticipated. Certainties sometimes replaced by doubts, for example. Life-long allegiances questioned. Like old photographs, some views and attitudes sharpening while others fade. Time. Relationships. My place in the world, and the world’s place in my life!

It’s been nearly four years since my blog, ElderChicks, retired. Women of a wide range of ages, and the occasional man, wrote about topics of interest to them and to each other in a safe, welcoming space. In this 10th decade, I’m finding my new age cohort’s lives and conversations seem less divided by gender, and more united in humanity, or the experience of living a consciously elder life.

Seriously Senior is a place for nonagenarians to explore and express what reaching and living this long means. Whatever physical changes and challenges we may experience, our inner reflections and resources still guide our actions and who we really are. And who we are becoming.

After this surprising amount of time, we have a lot to tell each other. I want to tell you about 10th decade insights – positive and/or negative – that seem to emerge with all this age. And I’d love to learn about and from yours. Whether it might be of help to those who are following us is up to them. This is about our time, one which at last appears to have a looming, foreseeable limit. Humor, good will, fascinating observations are ours to share.

Please join me and write with me, biweekly, brother and sister nonagenarians!

— Thelma Reese