I believe I’ve touched on this point before, but it happens often enough that I had to come back. Why is it when a room is dead quiet, like during a silent prayer or while taking a test, that funny, inappropriate sounds emerge so loudly? And, why is it those sounds then make me get the giggles at a time… Read More
Gray Area
I felt the image I have of myself crumple as tightly and as ruinously as the wad of paper I tossed at the wastebasket. I missed the basket, but that is not what brought about the destruction of my self-esteem. It was the content of the letter I had just crushed with fervor. How is it that a few simple… Read More
Car-ling, I Love You
The other day I was having lunch with my friend Judy. She told me her grandson just passed his driver’s license test and was thinking about buying his first car.  That got Judy and I on the subject of cars we’ve owned and loved over the years. I told her my very first car was a 1972 Ford Maverick, a… Read More
The Longest Goodbye
I went to a funeral on Friday. Even now I’m trying to understand my feelings about attending, and why this internal conflict has rocked me a bit. The woman, I’ll call her “Ann” for blog purposes, was someone I worked with many years ago. Ann began as a receptionist for the dental clinic soon after graduating from high school. Her… Read More
Cindy And The Piano Man
My friend Cindy had a birthday last week. We won’t talk numbers because those are an irrelevant marker to a life well lived. Let’s just say Cindy is aging with a mighty beautiful patina. This is a woman who recently wore a dress that fit her so well the term “Pippa Butt†was bandied about with envious appreciation each time… Read More
Where We Live
Housing and Aging The steps in the houses they’re building today Are so high that they take… your breath all away. And the streets are much steeper than ten years ago. That should explain why my walking is slow. –R. Stewart  For some time now I’ve been having dreams about a house I’ve never seen in real life. It is… Read More
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