My gift. Didn’t seem right to burn it. Common complaints about kids: they don’t listen, can’t follow directions, lose focus easily. Common complaints about adults: they don’t listen, can’t follow directions, lose focus easily. No reason to give examples about kids. If you have ever been around one or more, you know the above to […]
Some of my favorite things, thongs, flip flops Because our language lives, it evolves. And therein lies the problem. For us seniors, change does not come easily. I have no problem with new words. In fact, I like the word emoji, the new “word of the year,” according to the Oxford dictionary. It’s changing the […]
I have a checkered history with cell phones. Maybe some of you will be able to relate. The late 90’s: I had just bought my first cell phone. Quite thick and bulky. I put everyone’s call code on a tiny piece of paper and taped it to the outside of my phone. Now all I […]
I was confused. A few months ago I went to a family reunion in Tucson. My sister Ellen was the generous host. She and her husband recently bought a large home in the mountains. A large home works quite well for them. She is 5’8” and her husband is 6’2”. I tell you this because […]
Inheritances. Does anyone have a problem with them? I don’t. Maybe because I am one of 10 children and I grew up having everything divided 10 ways. Take cake, for example. A typical scenario went like this: yes, you can cut the cake but everyone else gets first pick. That usually dissolved our interest in […]
My neighbor is also my dear friend. We have much in common: we are both former educators, on the same political page, and active in our respective churches. Sometimes we talk about what we do for our churches—and in discussing our corporal works of mercy, I worry I might fall into the one-up-man ship trap. […]
Happy Birthday to my sister, Nancy, who turns 70 today, Feb. 7, 2016 How to describe Nancy?? Well, you actually can’t. She is part Auntie Mame, part Madonna, part Pollyanna, and very much herself. She wanted to be an actress, but the stage eluded her despite her master’s in fine arts, starring roles in the […]
That’s my sister, Kathy, who just won gold in the Senior Olympics in Tucson, Arizona. In weight lifting no less. Kathy. A journalist who writes for the local paper. The 5th of 10 siblings. A self-disclosed non-athlete with arthritic knees. A champion!! What prompted her to join this competition eludes me. At sibling gatherings, […]
Senior moments 