For reasons beyond my control, we’re not making our annual pilgrimage to the east coast for Thanksgiving. I’ve been hearing from my sister and her family how much they’ll miss us. And while I’m sure they mean it, there will be benefits to our absence. Mostly financial——without me and Daniel around, they only need to […]
Aging & Appearance
From grateful—to greedy
Life is short; eat dessert first. As a breast cancer survivor, I’ve always followed that rule. Life is short. I feel amazingly lucky just to be here; to be alive; blessed by extra time I didn’t expect to have—so far, 14 years and counting. I’ve always felt young and optimistic and full of life and […]
Hair today, gone tomorrow
Mary Travers had the hair I wanted when I was a kid. Stick-straight, smooth, silky. Mine had too much wave, too much body. Even though my father used to say it was my crowning glory; I hated it. The Brazilians and Japanese hadn’t invented their magical treatments– so to get Mary’s hair, I had to use the […]
Laughing all the way to the grave
Last night I laughed along with President Obama and David Letterman at the mention of the words “death panels”. Ironically, just hours before Obama appeared on the Late Show, a study was released—in time for National Alzheimer’s Day—and it’s no joke: More than 35 million people around the world are living with Alzheimer’s disease […]
a drop in the bucket
I don’t have a bucket list. Luckily my life has been full of things better than what I would have dreamed up. But if I ever had a list….there is one thing….one fantasy I’ve had for years, that would be at the top. I’m not sure how it started. Maybe when I was Daisy Mae […]
status report
Like most people, when I think of the sixties I’m thinking of the 1960’s. Sure hope my sixties will be as exciting as that. The decade started quietly. V was asleep. I stayed up till 3 a.m. wasting time working. The first voice of the decade: Alli’s. I was still asleep when she called on her way […]
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