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Karen Stabiner

Karen Stabiner

Los Angeles Times

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Friendship without age limits

Friendship without age limits

Old friends offer history. Younger friends offer surprise. We need both

wednesday 10

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Karen Stabiner

Am I too old to get a dog?

Aging, responsibility, and the pull of wagging tail.

13.03.2026 10

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Karen Stabiner

A bingo card for life

I’m living my life, one square at a time.

07.02.2026 10

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Karen Stabiner

The freedom of being judged only as fun or not fun

My encounter with 3-year-old Frankie is a meditation on age, attention, and the rare relief of being met without expectations.

03.01.2026 30

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Karen Stabiner

Am I too old to do this anymore?

I’d passed my cycling expiration date and never noticed. I am an anomaly merely by doing what I have always done.

28.11.2025 20

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My junk mail is obsessed with my decline and death

Too many of the messages in my mailbox exhort me to wrap it up.

05.09.2025 10

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The truth about our aging ears

Hearing loss is an indisputable sign of aging, and the fix is going to show.

26.07.2025 20

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Asking for help without feeling helpless

Maybe it’s my generation’s destiny to push back at the last gender-based assumption on the list: that whatever the test, older women are not up to it.

26.05.2025 10

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Karen Stabiner