Category Archives: Middle Aged and Onward

Here in San Francisco we have a thing on a local radio station called 10 at 10 – 10 Great Songs from One Great Year.  It is played every day at 10 a.m.  It’s a lot of fun, not only … Continue reading →

Why does it seem to happen this way?  I wait for months for a conference and on the flight to Albuquerque the unmistakable fullness of the throat combined with a bit of scratchiness heralded the start of a cold.  I … Continue reading →

When I was in grade school sometimes we’d fool around with words – who didn’t – and exchanged the first letter of our last name with the first letter of our first name – making me Hary Morton.  Talk about … Continue reading →

Went skiing again the other day.  It was the first time since 2009 when I took a nasty spill and wrenched my knee.  There were no major injuries – at least not that didn’t heal, but even childbirth isn’t as … Continue reading →

When we went camping when I was a kid, my Mom used to say the same things over and over again.  Anyone born before 1980 probably doesn’t know what this idiom means, but she “sounded like a broken record.”  For … Continue reading →

Santa brought me a Wii for Christmas!  It was on my list and I guess I was a good girl this year.  Although the tag said it came from Ed the Dog, I know it was from Santa.  Of course … Continue reading →

When Jeff was little, he was a bit of a whiner; he knows this, I’m not embarrassing him, it’s still a bit of a family joke.  His brothers would make fun of him, because “I’m starving” (we regularly starved our … Continue reading →

I’m fifty six on Tuesday.  I have noticed something since turning 55.  Yes, the AARP made me a member whether I wanted to be or not, but something else has happened.  Suddenly, all the early bird discounts at restaurants, senior … Continue reading →

Someone sent me one of those Saturday morning quizzes via email where I had to rate myself and it would tell me which movie star I was.  I ended up being Doris Day.  This just made me laugh out loud.  … Continue reading →

We had dinner the other night with Thais and Joe and the topic of conversation rolled around to Missy’s wedding.  Missy is their only daughter, they have two sons besides.  We had a lot of laughs.  Thais is the practical one … Continue reading →