You know you are a senior adult when “reminisce” is no longer just a word you don’t know how to spell, it is something you do.

Someone gave me a stack of Reminisce magazines to give out to the senior adults I visit.

I had never seen or heard of the magazine.

Flipping through the pages I found myself coming down with a bad case of nostalgia.

The images and stories of American life from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and early 70s are a stark contrast to life as we know it today.

Reading a few stories, I remembered living in a world that truly was kinder and gentler than what we are experiencing today.

It was like a mini-vacation to be transported back to the happy days of my childhood for just a few minutes.

I suppose there are people in the world today who have virtually no fond memories of their past.

Not everyone had a happy childhood.

But most of us can be thankful for the memories we hold dear.

Times long ago of joy and laughter with our family and friends molded us into the kind of people we are today.

So don’t stop being a part of the current times that are molding the next generation.

Giving the gift of something worth reminiscing about is priceless.

Imagine 40-50 years from now someone thinking back to the 2020s and you being in their nostalgic reverie.

We can’t know where we are going if we don’t know where we have been.

Reminisce magazine is a publication of Reader’s Digest, but written by its readers.

The subscriptions are very inexpensive — $7 a year for 6 bi-monthly editions.

Stories and photos are submitted for publication by clicking “share your story” at Reminisce.com.

Reminisce pays $100 for the first full-page and $50 for subsequent pages, plus an additional $25 for accompanying photos.

Wouldn’t it be great to read a story in Reminisce written by someone from Lexington?

Next week: We cannot only imagine