Robin Korth
Korth holds a B.A. degree in English and has 33 years of experience in newspaper and magazine advertising, book publishing and printing. Also a writer and editor, Korth has published four books for private authors and has worked with many companies helping them grow their businesses with advertising and strategic business profiles.
In 1983, as the owner of a fledgling aviation support advertising agency, she drove THE KORTH COMPANY TM to be the single largest advertiser in the World Aviation Directory. The Korth Company actually contracted for more advertising space than any other advertiser, including Pratt & Whitney and General Electric during that year.
In 1999, Korth received a Master's degree in nursing, with a concentration on research and the care of the older adult. This augments Korth's other experiences to firmly ground her in solid knowledge and practical experience as the driving force behind INSIGHTS ON AGING.
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In 1983, as the owner of a fledgling aviation support advertising agency, she drove THE KORTH COMPANY TM to be the single largest advertiser in the World Aviation Directory. The Korth Company actually contracted for more advertising space than any other advertiser, including Pratt & Whitney and General Electric during that year.
In 1999, Korth received a Master's degree in nursing, with a concentration on research and the care of the older adult. This augments Korth's other experiences to firmly ground her in solid knowledge and practical experience as the driving force behind INSIGHTS ON AGING.
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Nope. Life Ain't FairLife ain’t fair! And isn’t that just grand? I don’t know about you, but I was raised with one big fallacy hanging over me from cradle until just a few years ago. I was taught that life was fair. It ain’t! And that is a really good thing!
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Time on the RunTime is a sneaky little guy. It is only in retrospect that we look over our shoulders and see the minutes have become mountains of time-slapped events that we can catalog and count.
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Stuff ItWe are a culture of accumulation. Everywhere we look there are vendors vying for our attention, advising us to buy “stuff.” And we are answering this call to consume with flying colors!
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Scared QuietThere is a monster stalking the land - Political Correctness. The insidiously proper "P.C." has staunched voices of reason and ham-strung the voicing of honest opinion. We have become a nation and a culture "terrified to offend."
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Hello and GoodbyeLearning to say "good-bye"- and hopefully doing it well - is something that simply comes with getting older. We say goodbye to our youth, to some of our dreams and eventually to some of the people that walked the road with us.
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Falling in LoveThe "L" word. Love! We have it upside down, backwards and often inside out. We need to fall in love with ourselves first! Then we are whole and complete and our relationships with others take off.
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Just Not Giving a DamnAge is a gift of perception. Experience gives us a longer view and one of peace or just no longer being bothered!
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So LongThe death of a parent is a time of reckoning. We are called to readjust ourselves within our lives.
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The "Good Girl" Bites the DustThe day I finally grew up was the day the "good girl" bit the dust.
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How Dare I?Boy, I get really lost in life at times. I can hit a wall of me wanting what I want. I’ll get all stubborn and wonky as I sit there with teary eyes and a “this sucks” thumb in my mouth. When I find myself in this place, I ask myself these questions: How
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That Laughing Bad BoyFor months I have been struggling to write my weekly Guts of the Matter articles and the words have not come. Or if they have, they are not about what is really going on with me. What is really going on? Change!
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It is . . .It is the stark and powerful beauty of a soul struggling . . . that makes my heart sing and sigh in wonder.
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I Refuse!I can be such a smart ass at times. When shopping recently, I blithely told the sales person that I was “pushing sixty,” smugly thinking to myself that I am only fifty-six. She remarked, “Gee, you look wonderful for your age!”
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A Price Too High?What is the price of a happy and joy-filled life? It is a gut-level, brutal honesty about who we are and what we have been doing. When we face ourselves head-on with a fearless "I will do this thing," the hidey-holes of denial and self-deception disappear
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"Role Call""What do you want to be when you grow up?" We are asked this question as children from the first moments we can totter around and grab the doctor kit. We look for the things we must accomplish and the needs we are supposed to fill to define us as people.
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A Life Comes Shining ThroughRecently I sat in front of a microphone for four-and-a-half hours as an interviewer asked me about my life. It was exhausting and also very illuminating. There were tears and laughter, quiet whispers of pain revisited and heart-held sorrow revealed openly
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The S & M ExperienceDo you remember the first time you heard the “S” (Sir) word or the “M” (Ma’am) word when someone was addressing you? In the time line of maturity this event stands stark in many people’s memories.
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CurmudgeonhoodIt has become a deep concern to me of late that I am becoming a curmudgeon. When one goes to the Miriam-Webster Dictionary (online, of course), a “curmudgeon” is defined as “a crusty, ill-tempered and usually old man.”
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As My Butt Has FallenFor me, one of the problems with getting older and becoming a “person of age†is that I can no longer rely on my perky butt and cute young looks to get me through.
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Doll SmashingI had taken the hard, cold facts of my past and covered them with paper-mâché, creating dolls that I had painted “pretty colors†and had placed on the shelves of my mind.
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Insights on Living – I Think NotWhat I talk about is the joy and honesty and delight in life. I speak to the laughter and the kick-butt adventure that is there for all of us when we do this living thing well.
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If Truth Be ToldOf late I have been contemplating and conversing about the concept of truth. I did not think there was much to discuss. The truth is the truth, right? Apparently, this is not so.
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Bring Yourself to the TableTo truly love and accept ourselves seems a difficult task for many. I recently spent some time asking people in one of my very 'œscientific' surveys, if they loved themselves. The responses surprised me.
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I Just Didn't KnowMy heart expands with memories and events of long-gone summer years that dance across my mind. In my soul I hear the quiet and soft words, 'œI just didn't know.'
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'Un-herd' of BehaviorAs I sit here typing this newsletter, my thoughts go to how my life has turned out so far. I am stunned and more than surprised at the life I now lead. Things have changed, people have changed and I have changed in ways I never could have anticipated.
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An 'excused' LifeI have at last come to a point in my maturity and sanity to choose to no longer carry the inside pain of an 'œexcused' life.
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No Ordinary MomentsAs the days of my life become years, I am amazed at the speed with which time moves. Events and incidences, large and small, swing past and around me causing me often to blink in surprise and wonder.
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When We ChangeWhen we change, we change our world." The first time I heard this phrase I just went, "Yeah that sounds cool and kind of guru-interesting, but what the heck does it really mean?"
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Gerbil JudgingThe words 'œI can't' have taken on some real significance for me as I ponder and wander through my days.
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We Are so ScaredDoing this living thing well takes great courage and an open heart. But so often, we are frightened to put ourselves really out there--to give it our all. Why are we so scared?
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When I Grow UpI don't know if you were anything like me when you were a younger you. But somehow as a very much younger Robin, I thought I was going to somehow "arrive" at being a grown-up. I would pop full-blown into adulthood rather like the Pillsbury Doughboy.
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We Are HeroesThere are still heroes to be seen, heroes to be applauded and emulated. Who are these heroes? They are us! In the quiet everyday way of negotiating this "brave new world," we walk as heroes.
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Taking TimeDitch the cell phone. Lose your IP Address for a moment. Say "Hello" to you and to me.
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Then We Are OneThe twinning and pairing of us with someone else forms much of who we become in life and then dictates where we go and how our days are lived.
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Tit for TatThis lady "Victoria" had some secrets to show me. So, feeling a bit like I was betraying two rather private parts of me, I ventured to this "secret" place to purchase lingerie to give me a more noticeable chest.
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In the Fullness of TimeTime--it welcomes us to the future, nestles the moments of our present and wraps its subtle breath around our past. There seems to be a warp and weave to time, a texture of fullness as it cradles the events of our days--insignificant and momentous.
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The End is in SightI walked away from my long-term marriage. It was time to get out of what had become a "keeping on, keeping on" life that had long ago dissolved into a soul-emptiness of habit and habitat. This took courage and an enormous leap of faith.
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Heart SongsIf you are anything like me, you have an almost-automatic tendency to discount and sidebar an awful lot of the "not familiar" that makes itself known in the span of your day.
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Bathroom HumorWe have become, quite literally, a nation of slobs. In our easy, "use-it-once-on-the-run" lifestyles, everything from doughnuts to underwear is packaged in a "to-go" or "one-use" manner.
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Soul-throttledHave you ever watched a child cradling a broken toy, tears streaming and mouth yowling in pain? Gut emotion roars with an out-flung cry of anguish and loss; pain, anger and sorrow are vented with valves wide open.
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Marking TimeIf we had only known. If we had been able to see ahead and realize the importance of those moments of turning; those poignant places in time that indelibly marked our lives.
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Intensity RevistedIf you are anything like me, living full out with the throttle pushed to the floor was a "movie magic" sort of adventure that thrilled and pulsed through your younger years.
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Youth DreamsAh, the dreams of our younger years, those tender and ferocious ideas and ideals that we held dear and determined. The driving forces of our twenties or thirties, we often put them away as foolish and forgotten because life began to happen.
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We Were OnceIf statistics are correct, the majority of us will say good-bye to a spouse or two before we are through with our journey in the here and now.
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Compassion is the Working Side of LoveCompassion is the working side of love. It is the reaching out and touching back of one soul to another.
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Nope. Life Ain't FairI was taught that life was fair. You got as good as you gave. Honesty was repaid in kind. And hard work always saw genuine results that were of equal reward.
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WindblownTrue friends--you know, those really earth-gritty and gut-level ones--are rare. These people with whom we just seem to "click" add joy to our lives and somehow make us "more."
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Life is a 'yes' or 'no' Kind of DealAs I approach my fifty-sixth birthday (Dear God, this means I will actually be walking through my fifty-seventh year!) I find myself reviewing the "where I have been" and looking with great delight to "where I still have not visited."
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And so a New Year . . .Some of us see a "new" year as an opportunity; some of us view it as simply another January-beginning; and many of us see it as one more nail in the coffin of a life "going, going, gone."
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ForeverChildren--we so eagerly await them; dread them; desire them; and despair of them. Our children are our greatest blessings and our most brutal teachers.
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'Presbyopia'--what the Heck is That?My arm is not long enough anymore! I cannot see without reading glasses. You know, those things that we laughed about that our mothers, older brothers and simply others had to use to see. And, now it is our turn. Oh, my, there go our eyes!
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Next!Lately, I have been wondering if perhaps I have shut down my view of things; have limited the avenues of adventure in my life. Perhaps it is time for me to shake things up.
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Time on the RunIt hits us all at one time or another in numerous quiet and not-so-quiet instances. We are getting older; we are getting old. Time is marching, no matter how hard we run and hide and try for a sleight of mind.
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Beep!When did we start talking to machines? And when did we start thinking this was okay? Were we ever asked if we wanted to start having conversations with recording devices? It just sort of happened, didn't it?
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Scared QuietThere is a monster stalking the land '" Political Correctness. The insidiously proper "P.C." has staunched voices of reason and ham-strung the voicing of honest opinion.
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One of Those MorningsHave you ever had one of those mornings when the light is just right and the weather is just right and your heart is just right?
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I Don't Want To!Our sense of community and the idea that there is responsibility in how we should behave and take care of ourselves has gone by the board in our "It's my life and I can do what I want" times.
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So LongThe phone rings. The call has finally come. Your mother or your father has slipped from this life. It is time for you to go wherever "home" is and say goodbye for the last time.
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And We Are MagnificentAs we get older, we begin to understand how very fragile life is. Perhaps this is the necessary upshot of simply having lived for some years. We have said "goodbye," lived with and lost with those who have peopled our days.
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Stuff It!My, my we are a culture of accumulation. Everywhere we look there are vendors vying for our attention, advising us to add to our "stuff." And, it seems we are answering this call to consume with flying colors!
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What is 'really' Going On?The boom of reality television shows (one in every four TV shows produced at present) is an interesting and more than frightening comment on our times.
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Hello, Hello and Good-byeWe spend our early years saying hello to life and to its opportunities. We welcome new things and new people as we explore who we are and get to see who we are becoming.
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It's the Newest Thing!How often do we hear these words? They used to cause me to prick up my ears and pay attention; to want to find out where engineering and modern creativity had taken us. But, lately, these words have begun to cause me to cringe.
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Where Have Our Heroes Gone?What has happened here in America? Where have all our heroes gone? Our politically-correct, afraid-to-offend and oh-dear-I-cannot-take-a-stand mentality has robbed us of the people who would genuinely inspire us and show us the way.
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Falling in LoveThen you have two hearts and souls meeting each other on even ground. There is no "I need what you have to be complete." The real joining of two creates another entity that is totally separate and complete; the "us."
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'˜You Can't Put an Old Head on Young Shoulders'I still remember rolling my eyes at the "killjoy" graying elders who would use these OLD sayings in attempt to color and control my youth.
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Is it Serenity or . . .At fifty-five years of age, I am well aware that a lot more than half my life has been lived. I find myself bemused by this fact, as well as interested in the process of aging as a whole, because this "being a person of age" isn't quite what I expected.
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The Thirty-year '˜dead Zone'We have not looked at the fact that many, many people are living into their nineties. It is becoming more and more common that the nonagenarian can thumb their somewhat more-wrinkled beak at the octogenarian.
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How Many 'cow Tippers' Does it Take to Tip a Person Over 50?Do the experts really think that all people of this age or greater have the same needs, wants, and desires? That they are all slow-moving, not very bright, and asleep on their feet?
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Fear of 'curmudgeonhood'It has become a deep concern to me of late that I am becoming a curmudgeon. When one goes to the Miriam-Webster Dictionary (online, of course), a "curmudgeon" is defined as "a crusty, ill-tempered and usually old man."
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The Time/age Conundrum!Do you remember when you were a young teen or twenty-something and "old" people began at about the age of forty and continued up to about seventy? They all seemed to just belong in one single group of "old people."
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It Seemed like a Good Idea!We are all familiar with the saying that "Youth is wasted on the young." It is interesting to note the different reactions to this bit of sagacity.
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The S&M ExperienceDo you remember the first time you heard the "S" (Sir) word or the "M" (Ma'am) word when someone was addressing you? In the time line of maturity this event stands stark in many people's memories.
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Damn Kids!As I look at things this way, there really isn't a whole lot of difference in the young kids of today and my older and oh-so-much-cooler generation. The toys and the togs are different, but youth will be youth!
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Look in the 'Y' FileThe source of my "pearly words" is becoming somewhat clear. Can it be as simple as that I have lived long enough that I have "been there before?"
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Taking it on the ChinAs I have matured and life has become so terribly complex, multi-colored and multi-dimensional, I have decided that it is time to give up bruises and fat lips. It simply isn't worth it anymore.
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Age is so Much More Than Just a Number!What are we doing? It seems we are grabbing onto a feeling of "youth" at any cost simply because we see "youth" as better.
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As My Butt Has Fallen, It's Time for My Spirit to Rise to the OccasionSo, there are questions to be asked of myself, and quietly answered. How do I want to live these next thirty or so years? How do I want to show up in my life?
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That 80-Something 'Old Coot' Helped Save Your Ass!Perhaps you should stop and say "Thank you!" to these people the next time they "get in your way."
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Telling the Truth About Our Age - What's the Big Deal?Why is it impolite to ask a woman her age? Is it impolite to ask a man his age? Didn't used to be; but perhaps it is not the thing to do in our "dear, dear I don't want to offend anyone" culture.
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Fear of Aging is like the Monster Under the BedRunning and hiding from aging is like being afraid of the monster under the bed. You have to turn on the light and confront the monster yourself. Face the aging process squarely and embrace it. And guess what? The fear of aging disappears.