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My husband laughs when I sit down to plan travel. I spend hours at it; he thinks I spend more time on the planning than I do on the trip – and that may be true. I love to pore … Continue reading →

Reinvention: I’m not an expert, but I play one on TV (Lifehacking at 50+) Okay, so the start of a new year means a fresh page in the Things I Want To Accomplish book, and that includes quitting bad habits … Continue reading →

Okay, so I promised I would talk a little about holiday decorations, so here it is in a nutshell: We don’t. No, that’s right. We don’t put up anything at all. If you came to our house on Christmas Eve, … Continue reading →

When I was young, and beautiful, and rich, I drank whisky. (And I spell it that way because what I drank was Scotch, which is spelled whisky, while only Irish and American whiskeys have the “e” in them.) Anyway I … Continue reading →

We weren’t much help to the neighbors when they asked for a hand putting up the Hallowe’en decorations. We’re not big on decorations anyway (more about that at Christmas) but we were really more of a hindrance in the black-cat-and-ghost … Continue reading →

Get off my back about the calcium, already. I am sick and tired of hearing from all my health care professionals, friends, foes, media and ads that I need more calcium. I don’t. What I need is someone WHO IS … Continue reading →

Okay so I was all set to post some lame-o August blog entry on Living In Small Spaces or How Much a Dog Actually Costs or something all helpful when Robin Williams died. Damn. Set me back a good ten … Continue reading →

Last week was the birthday marathon, a seven-day fest of eating and drinking and doing things I’ve always wanted to do. Every once in a while I must indulge myself just to remind my mind what (and who) is important … Continue reading →

When we moved to our new (smaller) house, we tossed a lot of stuff in an effort to downsize. Much of it was redundant junk – stuff we didn’t use in the first place but then got duplicates of, like … Continue reading →

The Dread Shred Project For years I dreaded April 15 – tax time. Not because I have to do the taxes; the husband does that, with his uber-geek powers and the arcane secrets of TurboTax. No, I dreaded the Ides … Continue reading →