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Our Stories Today
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Letters from Renée: The Staircase
I am delighted to announce another first for Our Stories Today; an essay by a guest contributor. Renée Levine, age 94, is the mother of Sally Laventure who was recently spotlighted here in our Conversations column. Shortly after I ran the story of her daughter, she...
Hot flash release
We were on the ground floor of Macy’s, surrounded by pretend beds, choosing sheets for summer. Flannel sheets were our favorite for winter, but the weather had warmed and the cast from my broken wrist last summer had chewed up our five-year old sets. There were pulls...
Conversations: Sally Laventure
"Our Stories Today" is delighted to introduce the first in a monthly blog series called "Conversations," where I will spotlight women over 50 by capturing them in photographs and providing writing prompts. I began this series to explore the many faces of women over 50...
The Absence of Marketing to Baby Boomers
I went to five stores before I found the right pants for a trip. And when I did, it was an accidental discovery. Seems to me something is wrong with this picture. A few days before I was leaving for Scotland, I went shopping for pants. I wanted something lightweight,...
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...
