Personal Note: To all of you celebrating over this month’s election, I say congratulations. I trust you will watch for the results from your choice. For those of you grieving over the same election, I offer sympathy, and the time-old solace that “this too shall pass.” Finally, for all of us, I suspect that being … Read more
I trust that each of you enjoyed the numerous daily posts you have received from me in the past two months while I was away. Are you shaking your head in wonder? Thinking ‘did I miss something?’ In turn, I wonder if this is gaslighting or sanewashing my readers. To include a fact-check, I didn’t … Read more
On Valentine’s Day, just past, a long-time friend from back east died. A big guy, he sadly became less and less interested in aging with any kind of pizzazz. Kent was older than me, but for a while, when we were both single, we were close friends (without benefits). At a time in our lives … Read more
Chop, Chop, Scrap, Scrap, Swish, Swish. Sounds similar to these come from my kitchen many hours a week. Repeat, MANY hours. It dawned on me recently that there’s a great variety displayed in our kitchen utensils, and their quality. Over the years, I’ve accumulated 4 vegetable (potato) peelers. Not all are created equal. As we … Read more
For years now, I have periodically re-visited a chart I made for myself eons ago. It has undergone numerous reincarnations; presumably following the evolution of my own life and ideas. It was originally produced for my first (and now out-of-print) book, cited in the footnote. However, I had actually been working on it long before … Read more
Late last year I had the opportunity to hear a (surprisingly) amusing lecture by David Tullar, a neurology expert specializing in memory. Now, who would expect to chuckle and even laugh out loud during a talk on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other dementia issues? Especially puzzling to enjoy the humor as we ourselves age. Yet, … Read more