Not Really a Holiday
It’s Valentine’s Day. It makes me wonder if elementary school age children still show up on Valentines Day with little valentines they hand out to the other children in their…
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Traveling in Place
In the fall of 2019 National Geographic sent me their 2020 Expeditions Travel Catalog. I immediately read it cover to cover and found a trip that sounded fascinating. It was…
The Vastness of History
I never liked history classes until I got to college. My freshman year in college I had a professor who made the subject fascinating and relevant. Until then I had…
No Longer Getting Old
Everyone eventually has that milestone birthday they don’t want to acknowledge. For some its turning 30. For others its 40. For me it was 50. I did not want to…
The New You
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant”, said Cary Grant. More than anyone I can think of, Cary Grant personifies the art of reinventing…
The Gentle Art of Making Soup
Of all the foods I love to make, soup is my favorite! In winter a warm bowl of home made soup is packed with health benefits. It opens nasal passages…
The Age of Innocence
Author Edith Wharton wrote in her autobiography that her book The Age of Innocence allowed her to find a momentary escape in going back to her childish memories of a…
Why Nike Is Right
In a few days we’ll be at the end of another year. Which means that most of us are thinking about what we’re going to do in 2022. We’ll set…
Scrawny Christmas Trees
By now you have probably put up a Christmas tree somewhere in your house or apartment. Is it a live tree or an artificial one? Prior to 2020 the sale…
Friends and Best Friends
Do you send Christmas cards each year? Christmas is still the largest card-sending holiday in the U.S. The average person who sends them, sends between 50 and 100 cards each…
Feeling Left Out
Approximately 210 million Americans don’t have access to high speed internet, according to MicroSoft Corp. I’m one of them. I split my time between my water-front home on Florida’s Forgotten…
Gifts That Cost Nothing
Black Friday and Small Business Saturday are over. Today is Cyber Monday, and this year’s gift purchasing season is going strong. In the U.S. it is anticipated that Christmas retail…