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Celebrating 60 Years
This is how I spent my 60th birthday: I woke in the arms of the man I love most in the world in Ullapool, Scotland. I had coffee and a wonderful breakfast made by my husband. We went for a four mile walk in the misty weather and then cleaned up and drove to town. We...
GG’s Incomparable Legacy
She taught me how to plant pansies. We planted them around the rectangular patio made up of pink and white cinder blocks behind her house. I suspect we did the planting in a manner that causes me to cringe today; in neat little rows, with linear aisles, and nothing...
Take a bath
In the summer of 2018, my husband and I redid our bathroom. This was not a frivolous remodel. Before the remodel, the toilet was pink with a seat that could barely accommodate an adult toosh, there was an empty space where a washer and dryer had been before, complete...
The Leaf
I walk a number of steps past it before I turn around and pick it up to look more closely. The leaf is beautiful, lacy, old and delicate. I imagine it has been on this path after falling from one of the many towering trees all winter and its survival moves me. I hold...
Wait? Weight?
Before I hit 50, I never thought about weight. I had trouble gaining weight and ate whatever I wanted, though I tried to maintain a fairly healthy diet. In 2013 I was at an all-time low and wanted to gain seven or eight pounds because aging is not kind to skinny skin....
