Me, ChatGPT and aging

June 17, 2026
(I knew we had crossed the Rubicon when I read that a guy killed his girlfriend, then asked ChatGPT to help with an alibi. He conversed with Chat GPT over a period of days. Sort of like I do. Sigh.) In continuing conversations with ChatGPT, I addressed the topic of aging. Quite a bit came...

A fish tale

September 1, 2011
I'm a girlie-girl and I make no apology for it. I wasn't raised in the country. I never killed my own food. I had a career in business. My father fished about once a...

Giving away the coolest stuff in the world

August 31, 2011
When my nephew was a little boy, his mother -- a creative soul-- would send the cutest birthday party invitations. I mean, really cute. Memorably so. Almost as cute as...

Embellishing words

August 31, 2011
In the old days, gaudy embellishments were beat out of us in journalism school. (Not so much, anymore. But true back in the day.) As a result, I've had to learn to...

Only in Rochester – #6 & and GIVEAWAY!

August 30, 2011
Yes, there's a giveaway buried in this post! A good one, too! "What foods these morsels be!" Love the box slogan that's been there forever. There are a few...

Leaving home: Syracuse – fifth in the series

August 29, 2011
The young daughters of doctors in my era didn't think of following in their father's footsteps. Instead, they usually wanted to become nurses, and so did I. An avid...

Hurricane insanity: from the archives

August 28, 2011
Hurricane Frances, Sept. 2004 Glad to hear most everyone's done ok through this weekend's huge hurricane. It brought to mind 2004, when over a period of weeks,...

Calling home

August 27, 2011
My mother would have been 86 years old today. This is a piece I sold to Skirt! magazine in 2003. It's right on theme with my trip down Memory Lane. To my mother: still...

Looking back, aging + …skin care? Yes.

August 26, 2011
Here's a little side trip; back to the Memory Lane series tomorrow and if you haven't, see post from earlier today. As I look back on the tales I'm blogging about...

The surburbs – fourth in the series

August 26, 2011
We soon outgrew the apartment on Lancraft Street and moved to Irondequoit, a suburb just a couple miles from it. It was full of first generation American families making...

Gone, but not forgotten – third in a series

August 25, 2011
The West side of Rochester, where M is from, is dominated by one thing: Eastman Kodak. At its height, Kodak directly employed 60,000 Rochesterians. In a city of only...

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