My Mother loved Christmas, more than any holiday, or birthdays, or other special occasions. She spent her career in retail as a personnel manager at a J. C. Penney store and, in spite of the extra long hours including nights and weekends during the… Read More
So, here we are in the last week of November. The year is winding down, the turkey has turned into leftovers, and shoppers on-line spent a record $9.8 billion this Black Friday (up 7.5% from last year, according to Adobe Analytics). We have entered the… Read More
November 13 is World Kindness Day, and the whole week of November 13-19 is Kindness Week. No doubt you’ve heard of “random acts of kindness,” such as paying for a stranger’s cup of coffee or leaving money for someone’s groceries in line behind you.… Read More
I have always loved the sky. My father did too. Having been an Army Air Corps flight instructor during WWII, he became a commercial airline pilot afterward. His passion was planes and flying. When I was little — I mean really little, like 4 or… Read More
According to MIT Professor Richard Larsen who studies such things, Americans spend roughly 37 billion hours a year waiting. Yes, I said “waiting.” A 2022 consumer survey, “The State of Waiting In Line” (on waitwhile.com) identified waiting in retail check-out lines as the most common… Read More
We are within the ten-day period between Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In the Jewish calendar, these are known as the High Holy Days, also called “The Days of Awe.” The exact dates change, but… Read More
The first notice came in our community newsletter enclosed with the monthly water bill. The local contract for waste removal was expiring and had to be renegotiated. Of course garbage fees would be going up (isn’t everything?), but residents had choices that could… Read More
I am living in abeyance right now. Abeyance: the dictionary definition of the word is “a state of temporary disuse or unattended dormancy.” In other words, a state of suspension. Yep. That’s pretty much where I am, and for someone as goal directed and… Read More
My husband and I just spent a few days in New Orleans. The City is special for us because we first met there, later honeymooned there, and have returned many, many times over the years to celebrate our wedding anniversary in July. Yes, we usually… Read More
If you’re a fan of night-time television dramas, you might recall a series on ABC named Revenge. Vaguely inspired by a famous nineteenth-century novel by Alexander Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo ,1844), the series premiered in 2011 and ran successfully for four seasons. As… Read More
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