Think About This

Maybe the biggest blessing (or the biggest curse) about retirement is that you have great gobs of time to think, time when nothing and no one presses you to be somewhere else doing something else. I recently had such a time-gob and I thought about underwear. I don’t actually remember wearing diapers, but I know [...]

I’m sure you’ve heard all the talk about the two Hangover movies, right? As far as I can tell they appeal mightily to the males of our species, or at least to those of a certain age (or maturity level?) I haven’t heard that they have the same draw for females of any age (or [...]

Since we didn’t have any patriotic plans for the Memorial Day weekend, we decided to do the truly American thing. You know, SPEND A LOT OF MONEY as a kindness to the economy. It took no time at all to realize that we were each very deserving of a BRAND-NEW COMPUTER. (I’m using all-caps to [...]

I’ve written about my friend Mary before. You might remember that we’re phone pals because she loves our competition over the Scrabble words in the daily paper. Mary’s a crackerjack, that she is. In her eighties, almost blind, living alone, and carrying on a social life that could daunt most anyone. She plays bridge at [...]

It’s been many (14) months since I promised to go away forever, but I guess forever is only as long as you want it to be, ’cause, I’M BACK! Did I learn anything while I was gone? I think so. I learned that too much personal truth can cause wide fissures in family relationships. It [...]

This will be my last blog post.  I know, I know, you heard that once before, and then I reappeared.  It won’t happen this time.  I promise.  This time it’s over and I’m out. I’ve been a writer since childhood because I was born with a hyper-intense (abnormal?) need to be understood by somebody who [...]

So here is what I did about the hard personal questions raised in the previous post.  I took the month of March to think things over. It was a good time.  I felt a need to dial things down, take it easy, pull back a little, let the time flow over me.  I didn’t really make [...]

Does my life belong to me now, or do I still owe it to my children?  What if my heart believes one thing, and my children would have me believe something else, or nothing at all?  What if I am one person and my children would have me be someone else? I am not an [...]

You can’t help but think about love these days.  It’s all over the place as the hype heats up for Valentine’s Day.  I’m not at all into that, as it has always seemed like a totally contrived day to sell stuff; I would prefer my romance on any day but that one. I am definitely in favor [...]

Our block is a cul-de-sac in an aging neighborhood.  We’ve lived in the center house since 1977.  Back then it was a much livelier place than it is now.  It rang with the noise of our kids and neighbor kids playing in the circle with bats, balls, skates, bikes, kites, radio-controlled cars, and hammocks hanging [...]