My sister and her husband just spent a week with my husband and me at our home. They left yesterday morning. Due to her “influence,” my closet is fuller with more stuff that I have few occasions to wear.My checking account balance is lower due to buying more stuff I have few occasions to wear.And Continue reading
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What Happens When the Neighbourhood “Changes“?
What does the CEO of the Chobani Yogurt Empire, the brilliant inventor and physicist Albert Einstein, the founder of Google, the creator of blue jeans, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the first woman Secretary of State have in common?They were all immigrants. Fast forward to 2021. While in New Jersey a few weeks ago, I had a chance Continue reading
What’s Guaranteed to Raise Your Spirits?
What’s Guaranteed to Raise Your Spirits? I’ll give you a few hints. It’s available, cheap, accessible and effective. It’s HUMOR. Take the following joke as an example: My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a Continue reading
Barring the Belly Button at Midlife and Beyond?
Now that the election is over – though by some, the results are still being contested – maybe we can return to the more “important” things in life to consider, such as whether to bar or not bar our belly buttons at midlife and beyond. This is an important question – surfacing at least once Continue reading
Inching Towards 70
The column below is the one referred to in my last newsletter to you. It was requested by a publisher in New Zealand. I think it’s worth a re-run. And, by the way, you’ll now be getting my weekly newsletter on Tuesday’s, not Fridays. With traveling so much over the coming months, a Tuesday deadline was easier Continue reading
Taming the Hunger Monster
Like probably a gillion other people – in anticipation of indulging in huge holiday meals – I went into the Passover/Easter holidays weighing a tad bit less than usual and feeling a tad bit prouder of myself too. Looser jeans. More prominent cheekbones. More clothes in my closet I could actually wear in public. The Continue reading
The End is Near
Even as a little baby, my son Harry was always looking out beyond his confines. He didn’t think out-of-the-box. For him, there was no box His television ad touting his qualifications to be Mayor of Tampa emphasizes he “has plans, not just slogans.” What the ad doesn’t say is that though Continue reading
Doing Death Right
I’m not proud to say that I found the year leading up to my mother’s death very grueling, aggravating, and stressful – not to mention agonizing – as I am sure she did too. The details of my personal journey with my mom as she faced her own demise are irrelevant. Everyone who has buried Continue reading
I’m Taking a Break
Well I had such a darn good time on my “Running Away from Home” trip that I decided to “run away” again. With my husband this time. The first stop is a tough one. We’ll be spending July in Cincinnati, Ohio – our hometown – for the first time without my mom there – and Continue reading
Looking Fabulous at Any Age
I went to see a very well-respected plastic surgeon over the winter because I, like the late Nora Ephron, “felt bad about my neck.” He told me that for $13,000 not only could he make my neck look like I was ten to fifteen years younger, but my whole face – from the skin under Continue reading