I recently read a study claiming learning new things can make older adults’ brains 30 years younger in just 6 weeks… isn’t that fantastic? It encourages us ‘olders’ to be like sponges and urges us to give new escapades a whirl; particularly when the bar is set high. I like the idea of new adventures. […]
I am a GREAT sleeper. I can sleep through all versions of booms, crashes and thunders. And I can sleep just about ANYWHERE. This is not an admittance in any way that I ‘sleep around’… mind out of the gutter people. It’s that I can do so anywhere. Your uncomfortable chair no one ever sits on? Let
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Buh-bye 2022. Hello gorgeous! THAT’S YOU 2023. Are you listening? I know you are oft depicted as a naked baby with a beauty queen sash, but please tell me you are a Mozart listening babe, able to read at a doctoral level and can brilliantly intuit the good guys from the bad. Are you a
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HAPPY CHANUKAH!! On second thought should I write Hanukkah? Maybe Hanukah? OR alternatively… Hannukah, Chanuka, Hanuka, Channukah, Chanukka, Hanukka, Hannuka, Hannukkah? Another option: Channukkah. That’s some cockamamie spelling. You think? For the record, CHANUKAH looks the right-est to me. We can agree to disagree. As far as Christmas goes (Xmas anyone?) we were not
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As my 50th high school reunion was rapidly approaching I reluctantly read through the enthusiastic posts on the Facebook group thingy. “I’m counting down the days!”, “oooh can’t wait!”, “sounds like so much fun!”, “send your money in now!”. You want me to go to a FIFTIETH reunion? You can’t make me. Who do these people think
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It’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month! I’ve been aware of breasts ever since I eyeballed those beauties in my cousins’ Playboy magazines. Fascinating and mystifying to young me…. when are they arriving? Lively and full of pep when they eventually made their first appearance. Frolicsome and spirited upon full arrival. Gently sloping, wiggly, jiggly and
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No lace, zero doodads, no shiny doohickeys, not a single pouf… Simple, simple, SIMPLE. That is what I announced as I headed into David’s Bridal along with my wedding frock wing-woman. My mom. The sales lady tried to keep her irritation hidden, but I could see what she was thinking, “you have got to be
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A cool breeze flows through the open window. It wafts throughout the interior of the room as sultry rhythms make love to my ears. The seductive setting brings to light all the years and years of accumulated memories; provocative, familiar and abundant. Taking stock of the excess mementos, I tenderly put aside a few favored
I bellied up to the bar, leaned in toward my favorite bartender and ordered an old-fashioned, a Kamikaze, a Bazooka Joe and for good measure… a Jägerbomb. Thanks Coach. I’m hanging with Cliff, Woody, Sam and Diane. There’s Norm in his usual spot. Lillith and Carla just arriving. All us regulars. Then I pipe up,
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… and an opera singer, a detective, a novelist, an FBI agent, a tap dancer, a spy. Or so he told countless people he came in contact with over the years. He had a wicked sense of humor and loved to schmooze. He certainly had a way with waitresses and all my girlfriends. Yes, he
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