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I’m a widow who brings my quirky sense of humor, wisdom and keen observations about life and growing old to my blog---or so others have told me.
The March Madness And A Midwife Post
2024-03-13 04:00
 I’m not a fan of basketball but I am a fan of google and I’ve been researching why and what March Madness is all about. I love saying ‘March Madness’ and wish t… Read More
War And Play And My Black Jeans
2024-02-28 05:00
It’s been a head spinning week starting with a lecture here at the continuum care complex that was---well, very complex and totally over my head. It was presented by a woman whose fiel… Read More
Busy Little Bee!
2024-02-14 05:00
 Correction. I’m not ‘little’ but I’ve been a busy bee lately and it’s mostly my own fault that I had a million questions come at me where ever I went this… Read More
Neurodiversity, Autism And Dyslexia
2024-02-07 05:00
Tuesdays or Thursdays are usually our lecture days here at the continuum care campus. I try to go to them all for several reasons: 1) I figure if they don’t get supported they’ll… Read More
How To Keep Your Apartment Super Clean
2024-01-31 05:00
I’ve finally figured out how to keep my apartment clean and ready for drop-in company at any moment. Step one: Have a second cousin and her husband invite themselves over one Friday af… Read More
Is There Any Subject I Won't Write About?
2024-01-24 05:00
I woke up this morning thinking that I had to pee like a Russian race horse. I haven’t been around horses enough since my teens to remember how they pee but it’s phrase my husban… Read More
Sadiversary Number Twelve
2024-01-17 14:37
Last summer the IT guy here on the continuum care campus was messing around with my computer for some Mickey Mouse reason when he said I don’t have the requirements needed to upgrade m… Read More
Broken Resolutions And Unfinished Crafts
2024-01-10 05:00
The first week of the 2024 is over and all I have to show for it is a pedicure and a ten dollar bill from winning at Bingo. Considering it costs five bucks to play it’s not a win big e… Read More
The GingerBread House 2023
2023-12-13 05:00
 It's starting to look a lot like Christmas around here. The photo above is of our lobby where this week the area will be filled with folding chairs and an a keyboard will be moved in f… Read More
“The Gays” And Six Feet Under
2023-12-06 05:00
Sometimes it’s easy to forget to filler myself when it comes to recommending a Netflix series to binge watch. At the lunch table recently, here at the continuum care facility, we share… Read More
My Crazy Week With A Happy Ending
2023-11-22 05:00
It’s Sunday and I don’t have a post ready to edit for Wednesday. That’s out of character for me to cut it so close to the wire. But I’m stalling here, because it's be… Read More
2023-11-15 15:02
   Our Life Enrichment Director is really good at listening to our suggestions for cultural or fun events to put on our calendar and one I suggested happened this past week. It was… Read More
The Murder Mystery Dinner Party
2023-11-01 04:00
For Halloween our Life Enrichment Director here at the continuum care campus staged a Murder at Heathcliff Manor mystery dinner party. Was it ever fun both before and during the event. Twent… Read More
Privacy
2023-10-25 04:00
  "Privacy is not about hiding something. It's about being able to control how we present ourselves to the world." Bruce SchneierLet’s talk privacy. What’s too muc… Read More
High Tea And The Mayor
2023-09-27 04:00
It’s a rare occasion when I share a photo of myself online but the one below of me all dolled up and experiencing High Tea seems like a good time to do it. People on my continuum care… Read More
2023-09-20 04:00
There was a long line at the grocery store giving me plenty of time to study the stuff the guy in front of me had in his cart. The thirty year old inside me thought he was cute enough to be… Read More
The Season Of Spiced Lattes And Fall Colors
2023-09-13 12:45
September is firmly in place with all the changes it brings. Children are settled into their new classes by now and when a sunny, warm day comes along we treasure it because we know we won&r&hell…Read More
Too Much Screen Time!
2023-08-23 04:00
Often times over dinner people here on the continuum care campus will ask each other what we did all day. A table of twelve might bring answers like, “I went to Macy’s…&rd&hell…Read More
Crazy Day,  Crazy Dream And Baseball Parks
2023-08-16 04:00
It was one of those days when I was so busy the step counter on my fitness watch was calling out in pain, not to mention my fallen aches were doing the same. It was window washing day at the… Read More
Rumors Mills And Plants That Talk
2023-08-09 04:00
Image © Friends of Acadia National Park / Yehyun KimIf you’re a long-time reader you might remember that I’ve hated being pared for dinner with only one person living in my… Read More
Steamboats And Guilty Trips
2023-08-02 04:00
A powerful storm torn through our campus several hours before twenty residents from the Independent Living building were booked to go on a steamboat ride down the Grand River. When the sever… Read More
Visiting Memory Care And Fake Bus Stops
2023-07-26 04:00
Visiting my brother in the Memory Care building is a crap shoot in many ways. You never know what kind of problem---real or imagined---he will be trying to solve. There are common themes in… Read More
I Slept Around!
2023-07-12 04:00
Okay, that’s a provocative title and probably a bit deceitful. But I’m taking a page from Dawn’s blog (The Bohemian Valhalla) on that one. She puts a lot of thought into he… Read More
Slumber Parties, Pedicures And Widows
2023-06-21 04:00
Back when I was teenager in the ‘50s Slumber Parties were a common teenager activity at my school and presumably in the greater realm of the pop culture of the era. If you’re too… Read More
Confessions From A Dieter Drop-Out
2023-06-07 04:00
There are a couple of (gay) women living here who I’ve nicknamed the Skinny Minnie Twins. Both of them were college professors and have been together since their early twenties. They a… Read More
Creative Writing Groups And Poetry
2023-05-31 04:00
 Six months or so ago I started a creative Writing Group here at the continuum care complex. We’re a small group with a core of four but we are faithful in our endeavors. Two of t… Read More
Facebook Shorts And Homeless People
2023-05-10 04:00
Last week I got hooked on Facebook's Reels and Short Videos. If you’ve never viewed them they are like Ticktock where people from all over the world upload minute-long videos of just a… Read More
The New Me, Swans And Painting-by-Numbers
2023-05-03 04:00
It seems like a lifetime since I last sat down at the computer to write. I didn’t even take a break from posting when I was in the hospital with broken ribs so this transition from pos… Read More
Trying Something New
2023-04-26 04:00
Saturday morning I woke up expecting I’d be doing my normal routine of drinking two cups of coffee while reading and replying to comments on my latest blog post. But that didn’t… Read More
Easter In Geriatric Land
2023-04-12 04:00
The weeks leading up to Easter here at the continuum care complex were slow and boring if you’re not a Christian who took part in all the related activities that goes on between Lent a… Read More
Facebook Feeds - Love Them Or Hate Them
2023-04-05 04:00
My cleaning service comes in the morning so I’ve been picking stuff up to get ready for her. Thank goodness she comes once a monthly, otherwise who knows what my apartment would look l… Read More
No One Sees Me!
2023-04-01 04:00
Back in September I had thumb surgery on my dominate hand---both hands actually but only one is bothering me now. It’s been bothering me since my first fall between Christmas and New Y… Read More
Accomplished Women And Dementia Support
2023-03-11 15:14
People ask me if I paint much---my easel sets in the window---and I tell them not at all since I moved here which is mostly true. I've dabbled a few times but not enough to earn the "artist… Read More
Hair Sytles And Early Mornings
2023-03-08 05:00
At lunch we got to talking about how much time people sleep and what time they do it after a guy was asked where his wife was. “Still sleeping,” he said. It was nearly one o`lock… Read More
Traveling The Dakotas
2023-03-01 05:00
All of us have favorite stories we like to tell on ourselves. Undoubtedly, my husband Don had more stories in him than any human being I’ve ever known. He had the kind of memory tha… Read More
2023-02-25 05:00
I don’t know much about Lent and Ash Wednesday and the other stuff leading up to Easter. I do know it’s a big deal around here. Two priests serviced the campus ---if ‘servi… Read More
Six Degrees Of Anguish
2023-02-18 05:00
The people who live in my Independent Living building have a close connection with Michigan State University where the latest in a long line of mass murders occurred earlier this week. We ev… Read More
The Homecoming!
2023-02-04 14:18
The first time I walked into the cafe for lunch after my time away I got a standing ovation. I don’t know if I was truly missed or if they were just anxious to hear some tales from the… Read More
2023-02-01 05:00
NOTE I went home a few days before this post went live. It was in my scheduler so I'm letting it publish to buy me time to settle back in.I must be getting better judging by the fact th… Read More
2023-01-28 05:00
A huge black face just inches in front of mine woke me from a nap here Respite Care. It was the face of a massive dog who belongs to one of the workers.  The management allows staff to… Read More
2023-01-25 05:00
After moving Into Respite Care here at the continuing care complex my brother still lives next door. But I'm staying on the other side of him now than I did before the move. I had my 1st tel… Read More
2023-01-21 05:00
I left the Pain City Hospital after being there for 6 days in a whirlwind after waiting all day to find out if they were gonna release me. The anesthesiologist  said 'I think you deserv… Read More
2023-01-18 05:00
 It's 6:00 AM and the nurses are getting ready for a shift change. I must say the nurses here at the hospital are so compasionate, young and professional and they don't seem to mind doi… Read More
The Art And Business Of Giving
2023-01-11 05:00
 I’m having a hard time getting back into a post-holiday routine. I did manage to go to a lecture on the continuum care campus where I live. Our TV channel that advertises what is… Read More
From Wordle To Weighing In To Dementia
2023-01-07 05:00
Google came out with its list of the most searched words for 2022 and Wordle came in first. As usual I’m running behind the eight ball because it took that list for me to finally jump… Read More
Trouble Here In River City
2023-01-04 05:00
Since October I’ve been having dinner once a week with a group of women at what we’ve been calling the Liberal Ladies Table. We started with four of us and last week we were up t… Read More
2022-12-31 05:00
This time of the year I’m programmed to think about New Year’s Resolutions. Yes, I’m one of those dinosaurs who has been making them (and breaking them) since my early teen… Read More
The Personal Property Distribution Document
2022-12-10 05:00
Do you ever get obsessed over things that don’t really matter in the grand scheme of life? My latest obsession has been to figure out what the tiny orange light is for on my laptop&rsq&hell…Read More
The Dementia Diagnosis
2022-12-07 05:00
One of my frequent dinner partners here at the continuum care campus is an 80 year old I nicknamed Ms. Social Worker who you may or may not remember had a series of falls a few months ago th… Read More
The Season Of Parties
2022-12-03 05:00
Saturdays are a crap shoot when it comes to trolling for conversation at the cafe’ here at the continuum care complex where I live. We old people seem to be creatures of habit honed to… Read More
The Siblings And Our Parents
2022-11-26 05:00
My brother is settling into Memory Care quite well although an aid there just told me he thinks he’s in a hospital. I’m not surprised because on one of my visits he asked me if h… Read More
Winter Is Here!
2022-11-19 05:00
We’re getting our first major snow storm of the season and it’s coming down hard with 6 to 12 inches of snow predicted to accumulate over the next three days. For snowplowers lik… Read More
Our Amazing Creative Writing Session
2022-11-16 05:00
Our third meeting of the writing group here on the Continuum Care Campus was amazing. We had five people show up and that included Chatty Cathy who claims she just took dictations from God t… Read More
Dreams, Nightmares And Jigsaw Puzzles
2022-11-09 05:00
My eyes were nearly crusted shut, I had to pee but the tail end of a dream kept me in bed as I tried to stay in the dream for as long as I could. Usually when a dream wakes me up it’s… Read More
The Lawyer And The Ladies
2022-10-29 04:00
I had my legal i’s and t’s dotted and crossed ten years ago. Right after my husband died I went to a lawyer to get a will and the powers of attorney for health care and finances… Read More
The Fun And Games We Old People Play
2022-10-26 04:00
One thing you need when you move into a continuum care complex is a box of sympathy cards. I’ve written four since moving in a year ago, for residents I know well who lost their spouse… Read More
The Move-in And My Personal Woe-is-me Day
2022-10-22 04:00
I woke up at 4:30 and couldn’t fall back to sleep so at 5:30 I got up, had some cocoa and here I sit in front of the computer screen. I was not surprised. I went into my bedroom last n… Read More

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