From the Not Your Grandmother's 70 March 2022 I felt this post was very timely, so sharing it again. How many times have you decided to begin again? Begin a new career? Begin a more healthy life? Begin your best-selling book? Begin a new hobby? There are so many...
I have been reading recommendations that say it is not appropriate to compliment little girls on how pretty they are. I do it all the time. “Oh, you are so pretty.” We don’t say that to young boys. We might say they are cute, but we mean cute as children are...
How many New Year’s Eves has it been? I remember the year I said that I had no expectations of anything happening in the coming year. Funny, before the year was over, I was married. The one and only marriage I have ever had. While that may be a subject of future...
You ain’t never been blue; no, no, no You ain’t never been blue, Till you’ve had that mood indigo. That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes... You know what it is. The pits, the gloomies, down in the dumps. Rolled up in a ball on the bathroom floor. In...
I recently took a group tour abroad with what we politely call “mature” people. Most were couples, and something that stood out as unusual for such a group was that most women had different names than their husbands. I commented to one of the women that I found this...
