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I have made the executive decision to be age non-binary. That simply means that my chronological age does not define me at all and that I refuse to submit to society’s stereotype of that age number.

Reading is always a wonderful pastime in the best of times and in the worst of times it can be a literal mind-saver. As a high school teacher I had always told my students that the one person they should really thank for an incredibly wonderful gift was the person who taught them to read.…

I worked with a woman who was excellent at her job but had one very serious flaw—she was terrified of failing. Because of that fear, which was at times paralyzing, she didn’t take chances and never went after a higher position at the magazine where we both worked, a position that she really wanted. She…

“Has the idea of morality changed for us? I mean, one hundred years ago, what was considered moral for women?” A female colleague of mine asked me this at a Friday end-of-the work week dinner. We love discussing complex questions when we get together, and the idea of morality is always a topic that prompts…

To be honest, I was always someone who ridiculed the idea of taking a nap during the day. I equated it with ‘getting older’. If I took a nap I was admitting that I was old! Memories of my grandmother and my mother, taking afternoon naps beginning in their late fifties, sent a clear message…

In my grandparents’ neighborhood there was a man who was pretty much what today we would consider to be homeless. He was a former soldier who had some mental health problems that kept him from being able to hold down a job and he had no permanent address. He walked with a pronounced limp from…

Okay people, listen up. This isn’t a drill—we’re in a crisis—a pandemic—and we need to be able to get through this with our mental health intact. We’re being told to Shelter-In to avoid getting or spreading Covid-19, a deadly serious virus.  We need diversion.

A strange thing happened to me a year after I retired from my teaching career and transitioned to a full-time writing career—at some unknown point I seemed to lose my ability to make decisions. This was brought home to me when I realized it had taken me two weeks to make my annual appointment with…

Do you read? I mean, real books, magazines; tangible objects you can hold in your hand? I do. Oh, I love my ebook reader for sure, but there’s something about holding a real printed book in my hands that thrills and comforts me.

A friend of mine was concerned about the upcoming holiday season. Recently married to a man with two adult children, she and her husband were at a loss as what to do about traditions. “The kids have been wonderful about accepting me as part of their lives and I wanted to do something special for…