Eyes Wide Open: Looking at 2019

2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more

2018 Highlights

2018 was a year in which aging, mortality and illness reared their ugly heads, in the family and our circle of friends. » Read more

The short version I didn’t really try to set a new record for longest year’s end summary EVER, it was an EXCEPTIONALLY » Read more

One of my favorite shows as a child was the Time Tunnel, in which a pop art striped black and white time » Read more

Part 4: The Broken Stick Mary called to tell me that her beloved wooden-handled 20-year-old walking stick was broken. Me: “Can it » Read more