• Surreal Experience: A Fall in Chicago   

    Surreal Experience: A Fall in Chicago   

    In a Chicago minute, our plans turned upside down.

  • Lois Roelofs and Jimmy Carter and Hospice

    Lois Roelofs and Jimmy Carter and Hospice

    Learn about the benefits of hospice from Lois Roelofs and Jimmy Carter.

  • A Week of Having Covid

    A Week of Having Covid

    Surprised to learn my husband and I contracted COVID.

  • Choosing How to Die

    Choosing How to Die

    Review of a important new book: Marv Taking Charge: A Story of Bold Love and Courage

  • Memories: the Annual Family Vacation

    Memories: the Annual Family Vacation

      We have broken a family tradition. Every summer my husband, Ernie, and I have rented an oceanfront house in Emerald Isle, North Carolina. We started when my first grandson was one year old. Now he is 23 and has two brothers, 19 and 15 years old. We may have skipped a year a couple……

  • Martha Stewart,Pilates and Me

    Martha Stewart,Pilates and Me

    I just registered for a Pilates class. My husband laughed at me when I told him I’m taking Pilates because Martha Stewart, who is my age, took the class to get fit to wear a bathing suit for the cover of Sports Illustrated. At 81, she is the magazine’s oldest model. Martha has been my……