I love newspapers, especially the physical ones – I get excited each time a new edition arrives on my driveway or in my mail box. I get busy reading it. First, I peruse the paper highlighting what’s relevant to ME  and then I proceed to enthusiastically rip out article after article I deem enlightening, informative or Continue reading

I take back everything I said last week – I would rather be hauling water up three flights of stairs than dealing with the following: I tore my hair out.It didn’t help. I cried hot, thick tears.They only scorched my cheeks. I screamed as loud as I could,scaring my dog half-to-death. Nothing helped. First-world problem, Continue reading

One morning both my E mails on my phone and my E mails on my computer wouldn’t update. I couldn’t find our theatre tickets – lost in my phone or did I actually misplace the physical tickets in one of my three desks in my house? My nails were a mess and in need of Continue reading

Dear Andrea,                                  On April 15, 2023, it will be forty-eight years since I’ve seen you. That last fateful morning, you went bowling with our weekly league; I went into surgery. Ironically, I survived the surgery – you didn’t survive the day. No one knows exactly what happened. Was your radio too loud? Were your reflexes Continue reading

Studies show that as people age they get happier. How can this be? We have more health-related issues:      High blood pressure     Faulty hips and knees begging for replacement     Frozen shoulders      Arthritic fingers     Acid reflux     Lower back pain  We spend more time in doctor offices. We get colonoscopies regularly. Stress tests. Blood drawn. And we routinely find ourselves at rehab centers readjusting Continue reading

It was a day of newness – beginning with driving a cargo van 125 miles to my destination, which was The Annual Deland Outdoor Art Festival, where I had secured a booth to sell my creations for the very first time. I knew going into this virgin endeavor that I’d never recoup my costs:CanopyWagonShabby chic Continue reading

By the time you read this, hopefully, I will have driven a cargo van filled with my craft show supplies safely to Deland Florida – 125 miles from my home. By the time you read this, hopefully, the person who was supposed to help erect my canopy when I arrive at the park will have done so. By the Continue reading

Fannie Landman didn’t live a long life. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 9, 1912 and died on October 6, 1919 at age 7 years, 1 month and 2.8 days – from complications of Scarlett Fever and Septicemia, according to her Certificate of Death. Her family, immigrants from Austria, were too poor to have her Continue reading

I was looking through my “Joke Folder” in my computer. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like years ago, when e mail was more of a novelty than an everyday nuisance, people utilized this tech tool to send jokes. Nowadays I receive tons of E-mails bearing “enticing” subject lines:       HelloFresh – new recipes are Continue reading

My weekly newsletter comes out every Friday at 3 pm. I started writing it when my youngest son Louie was about three years old and he is now pushing thirty-nine. So I guess I’ve written a couple of thousand. My columns used to run about 900 words, but over the decades – along with our Continue reading