Dear family and friends, we are gathered here today to honor and celebrate our losses big and small, and to welcome into the fold the...

I didn't get the memo. Nope, no one ever told me that If your bra is too tight--if it prevents you from breathing--or if your underwire...

Get ready, get set, and go. Or throw the invite to your high school or college or professional organization's reunion into the garbage...

My mother has been dead for thirteen years, almost fourteen or fifteen if you count the years when she remembered my family and me but at...

My brother took his life more than four decades ago. Over the intervening years, I have written a book about teen suicide now in its...

It's been a while since I've blogged. Maybe it's the warm, sultry weather her in Mexico or the sweet sound of songbirds, or the seemingly...

I don't have Covid (at least, not yet) but I do have brain fog. Sometimes I sit and stare at the computer screen or in front of the TV or...

It's been one hell of a year--a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows, ups and downs. There was the utter fear of Covid 19 without any...

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle...

If you've been reading my blog--I sure hope you have--you know that I realized that I'd hit bottom during the Pandemic when I started...

I have kept my "daily appointment" calendars since 1989! I'm not sure why. They take up valuable bookshelf space; still, I've been...

I must have been three maybe four when my mother took me to the McGregor Library for the first time. The smell of new books reminded me...

I don't remember most of the dream I had the other night. It was something about me having decided to expand my circle of friends--my...

For those of you who don't know me except through seventynme.com, I thought I'd attach a link to the YouTube reading that I along with...

Roundabout this time of year, I start obsessing about the change from summer to fall and then to you know what. I prefer not to utter the...

I needed a drink. Something "stiff." The Zoom event in which I'd been invited to read part of a personal essay about a psychic reader had...

I'm out of whack. Off-kilter. Keerflooey. Verklempt. It's as if I'm walking the tightrope between the two Twin Towers in New York with...

Is it normal? Do we lose our "pubes" as we age? I never thought I'd ask this question let alone write about it. It feels embarrassing...

My seventy-sixth birthday is a matter of days away. Another year in the books. I'd like to think that I'm one step closer to cronehood,...

I didn't have anything pressing on my schedule for the day so when a friend called to rave about "Lockdown University," a series of...