Today I am a winner
I still don’t believe in participation ribbons, but I have changed my mind on how I define participation. Rick Duerksen I told my friend that I had changed my mind,…
“Age isn’t a number, it’s an attitude.”
I have a head full of old adages that seem to slip out of my mouth more often as I age. Someday they’ll all slip away when I slip away.…
Podcasts are taking over the “airwaves”
And Lifestyles 55 Digital Radio is leading the way When you were young, and if you were lucky enough to have a transistor radio, you listened to one of two…
Remember when … a little dab’ll do ya?
Last month I asked if anyone had any special memories of their past to pass them on to me and I’d post them. I was surprised how many responses I…
A popular scam: “It’s a friend of your best loved nephew, grandson, best friend, calling. He needs help! Send money!”
I recently had a telephone conversation with a woman in her late eighties whom I have known most of my life. She has had an interesting life but, not always…
The straight dope on dope for seniors
Last year an old friend gave me a book for my birthday. Not an unusual gift as gifts go, but this one had some thought put into it. Its title…
The Ghost of Christmas Future
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. Sort of. But, for the first time in … maybe ever, for a lot of people, it’s not going to feel like…
There is no such thing as one mouse in your house
“I Hate Meeces to Pieces”! That’s the familiar quote Mr. Jinks (the cat) exclaimed on each episode of “Pixie and Dixie”, the cartoon by Hanna-Barbera which aired around 60 years…
Remembering my dad…
“Hello” and “Coca-Cola” were the only two words he knew in English when he stepped off the ship in Quebec City in 1926. He had seen an ad in the…
Back to back
Is it just me … … or is it time to get back to normal, or, the New Normal, as it were, or is? Spring is back. Time to get…