When our cultural icons die

September 7, 2026
As I write this we’ve just lost both Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem, two women who helped shape our generation. Why do I feel such grief? It hits differently when a cultural icon dies. The grief can seem strangely disproportionate to the relationship we actually had with them. We had...

Aging, artichokes and risk

August 3, 2015
Have you ever wanted to do something but been kind of, well, afraid to take the risk? Afraid to step outside your comfort zone? This is a photograph of my husband...

How to keep cool

August 2, 2015
We've had a bit of a heat wave in northern California this summer, and if it's one thing I don't like, it's heat or humidity.  So here are a few tricks I use to keep...

Nosing around town

August 1, 2015
I'm getting ready to go to nose class, where I learn to locate things by scent. Want to come? Today was the first day we worked outdoors. Miss Pam put a bunch of boxes...

Worst blogging advice, ever

July 31, 2015
Anyone who blogs has read the zillions of posts chock-full of advice about how to increase readership on your blog.  I've read them, too, and have concluded that most...

The gift of “aging in place”

July 30, 2015
The first time I visited Sicily and saw my 78-year-old great aunt zoom up stairs like these with ease--despite the altitude of about half a mile--I was amazed. No...

Easy, tasty summer lunch

July 29, 2015
We were having company for lunch and I wanted make something special that would tempt the taste buds of my friends. Two of them badly need to gain weight and I wanted...

Stop sleeping with stupid men

July 28, 2015
I found this note the other day in a pile of old papers I was sorting through. It was one of three lined sheets torn out of a small, spiral-bound notebook. The pages...

Little girl lost

July 27, 2015
    She never stood a chance, little girl lost, daughter of the late Whitney Houston, gone now at only 22 years of age. Bobbi Kristina never stood a...

I’ve joined the Astronaut Wives Club

July 26, 2015
I was 10 years old when we went into space for the first time and I remember it like it was yesterday. The excitement.  The anxiety at Alan Shephard's welfare. The...

The cost of good will

July 25, 2015
It's always a shock when service businesses do not understand the concept of customer relations. Although it shouldn't be; we've had enough proof of it over the past 20...

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