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Carving out the middle of your life

For Becky Nappi blog
For Becky Nappi blog

This not so great photo (taken with my cellphone) is of a unique bar of soap given to guests in the Hotel Bellevue. It comes with a hole in the middle and this explainer: "This innovative waste reducing soap has been designed to eliminate the unused center of traditional bar soaps."

It makes so much sense, as a bar of soap. As a metaphor. So here's the question: What part of your life would you carve away because it was a waste?



Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.