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It All Adds Up

It All Adds Up

“Aging is a process of giving up things, sometimes one by one and at other times in batches,” lamented a 92-year-old friend when I visited her just after Thanksgiving. She told me that while she didn’t mind the loss of things like an uninterrupted night’s sleep and...

Birthday Musings

This past Saturday, July 21, marked 9 years since my husband was told he had stage 4, inoperable cancer. He was only 47; he had exhibited absolutely no symptoms; there was no family history at all; he had just carried, along with my son, a couch up 12 flights of...

“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”

Although these words were spoken (by Horace) over 2000 years ago, they are appropriate for me today. First, I am beginning. In large part because of the encouragement of some key people in my life and with the help of a new blog-world friend, I have the...