Living 50 Plus Decatur-Morgan

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus With the warmer temperatures of spring on the way, lace up your sneakers and hit the area’s walking paths, hiking trails and indoor tracks for a dose of exercise. As people age, ways to stay physically active shrink. But many opportunities remain for individuals to meet the recommended 150 minutes a week of

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Wearing blue jeans, Paula Alderman lined up at the starting line of the Turkey Trot 5K in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and started walking. “My sister signed my husband John and myself up for that race in 2013. At the time we were couch potatoes, not doing anything and were really out of shape.

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Mark Maloney runs through the list of “What ifs.” What if, after law school, he accepted a job in Nashville rather than moving to Decatur to practice law with his wife’s father, J. Gilmer Blackburn? “Never would Mark have been able to work his way up through Rotary if he had been working

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Samuel Wilkerson followed Pastor Barry Strong down the steps to a dimly lit kitchen. Opening cabinets and freezers, Strong handed Wilkerson cans of vegetables, soups and cranberry sauce, packets of hot chocolate, a 40-ounce jar of peanut butter, frozen meat, a bag of apples, Nerd gummies and a box containing nonperishable foods, including

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Donned in an ill-fitting, hand-me-down red suit and cheap boot covers, Paul Martin, his short hair and beard gray, glanced in the mirror dishearteningly. He knew everyone at the holiday event for special needs individuals would see him as an imposter. “I didn’t look like the real Santa. I was so worried that

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Surrounded by 40 rolls of wrapping paper and hundreds of packages of T-shirts, socks and underwear, Tracey Cater turns on a football game and wraps boxes. For two weeks every December for the past 12 years, Cater has sorted shirts, socks and underwear and wrapped them in boxes topped with a candy cane

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus As Carlos Gomez began the last lap of his workout, Jane Johnson shouted cheers of encouragement. “Come on Carlos. One more. You can do it,” Johnson said. Upon completing the lap, the 52-year-old Gomez placed his dumbbells on the ground and dropped to the floor. “It is very hard, but also very satisfying,”