I hear it everywhere—“Time just flies by!”“Where has the time gone?” It’s a sentiment I hear more and more among people around me. And I feel it too, especially at this time of year when there are extra things to do. Three weeks ago, as I sorted through our Christmas… Read More »Time Flows Through All Lives Equally, So They Say
My first memory of Christmas trees was waking up sometime during the night and seeing my mother arrange tinsel on the tree my father had cut down the day before. I must have been at the age of awareness, 4 or 5 years old, and becoming conscious of new and… Read More »Christmas Trees, Yesterday and Today
Judging by the number of people I see checking their iphones, I must be the last person on earth to buy a smartphone. My resistance broke down one day last summer when my camera which had served me so well over the years, simply stopped working. It was the right… Read More »My New Apple iphone, and Other Regrets
As I was eating my breakfast this morning, I was chewing on something else—how our consumption of meat is affecting our health and the health of the planet. It’s possible that this will make your eyes glaze over and prompt you to quickly switch to reading something else, but… Read More »Can Eating Less Meat Help Our Health and Save the Planet?
If you are anything like Bob and me, and possibly like most other people, you like to eat out. We’ve developed the habit of going out for dinner every Sunday, just the two of us. It’s a way to connect over a nice meal, and enjoy each others’ company—a time… Read More »Any Given Sunday
When you were going to school, did your teacher ever ask you, on the first day of school in September, to write about what you did last summer? And did you moan and groan about it since, like all kids, what was done was done, and all you wanted was… Read More »Reflecting on My Summer Break
I’ve decided to take a few weeks off from blogging. I plan to keep in touch though, and will be doing my usual commenting on other blogs, and keeping up on Facebook and Twitter. Mostly, I hope to relax, work on another project, and come back with renewed energy and… Read More »Time to Take Time Off!
After two years of watching the jaw dropping antics of the current government in our neighboring country, the USA, it appears that character assassination, back stabbing and outright dishonesty may be giving way to actual discussion of issues. I am beginning to detect something new in the air. It’s coming… Read More »Elizabeth Warren—Competent, Sober and Soaring to the Top!
It seems that we prefer almost any activity over the risk of being bored. It’s human nature to want to avoid that feeling of nothingness. Fortunately (or unfortunately), technology has provided us with an array of choices, Netflix, texting, playing computer games, watching television—all designed to fill those mental spaces… Read More »How the Gift of Boredom Can Rock Your Retirement!
This post started off as a litany of complaints about my difficulty with cooking while in pain from osteoarthritis, a condition I blogged about last week. I was all set to whine about not being able to find helpful kitchen tools, but soon discovered I was wrong; instead, I found… Read More »Gracefully Age in Place with the Help of Scientists, Inventors and Robots!
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