As we steadily age ….well, maybe steadily isn’t the best choice of words … making meals becomes a little more difficult, and different too, for several reasons. For example, our…

Yep that’s what I’d do, I’d back it all up – back to the days of my youth!  The world has changed so much during my lifetime that it is…

To start with, let me admit that I, personally, don’t live alone so I can’t write as an expert on the subject! The ideas expressed here today have been triggered…

Before becoming a senior, I had never given much thought to sharing. Not that I am selfish; it wasn’t that. In those pre-65 days it was taken for granted that…

Well, that’s something most of us would like to do, avoid trouble!  I say most, because there are those to whom conflict and taking chances are an accepted and exciting…

Chapter 1: Call 911!   It was somewhere around midnight, I guess.  I didn’t see the flashing lights of the fire engine or the flashing lights of the ambulance but…

Those of you who read my “Lifesavers All” may recall that article ended with Dr. Platonov saying, “I’ll see you again in November.  It would be nice if you were…

Hello Tracy, Why?  Why the sentimentality, I asked myself, and that set me to thinking. Then I realized why the tears come to my eyes; it’s because the Great Depression,…

Oh, Dementia, what cruel tricks you play; You’ve screwed up yet another day! To your many faults that leave one bereft, I’ll add another, mean and nasty theft! You steal…

As a young boy, during the war years, Christmas celebrations were at least as important as now but they weren’t marked with Xmas shopping that started in November.  Money was…