If it’s not good for you, use moderation; if it is, run with it. Read More

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*Yes, there's an app for that...although I didn't use it, don't have it, and don't intend to get it. Read More

100 words - RetroFlash Read More

It’s about something I see somewhere at least once a day. Read More

Growing up Thanksgiving meant dinner with two parents five of us kids three grandparents one aunt one uncle one cousin one great uncle one great grandmother  laughing loving kissing hugging drinking thanking jabbering gobbling  spilling over, no distance between us.   Now comes Covid rising with masks and elbow bumps  six feet here six feet there sanitizer… Read More

For some reason I just got it in my head that by sharing my love of language, I might inspire the kids to enjoy it in turn. Read More

I. As hippies, we repaired our jeans with patches, braid, embroidery floss. A statement: flower power. Decades later came heavy metal, grunge. Tattered and torn, a statement: fuck you. Now, designer distressed, professionally ripped in all the right places, a statement: I’m with it, at any cost. II. Broken, faded, distressed, frayed. I’m not talking… Read More

Possibly a loner by nature, I never mixed with the neighbors much, just a cool wave and a smile if I spotted one as I backed out the driveway, a word or two when we’d pass while walking our dogs. I’m not the kind to borrow a cup of sugar.   Since we began sheltering in… Read More

It’s one of those (hopefully!) once-in-a-lifetime moments where you remember where you were and what you were doing when something happened. Read More