Living in my first over-55 community has been interesting. But then, this is Vegas baby. You never know what to expect here. My mailbox periodically gets stuffed with flyers offering funeral services, estate planning dinners, reverse mortgage opportunities, and free credits for gambling—perhaps not in that order. As my philosopher mother used to say, “When … Read more

As we get older, we begin to miss the simplicity of a time when our focus was on getting out of a chore, or choosing what to wear to school, or wondering how we would make it through chemistry or French. The complexities of the world were not thrown in our faces every day unless … Read more

Writers have to market and marketing isn’t easy in the digital age when your books are among eight million available for sale at any one time. Sometimes you do impetuous things that seem like a good idea at the time, and afterward you wonder where your brain was. I am guilty of this. For Scandal’s … Read more

As the thermometer climbs over one hundred degrees, the urge grows strong to find a deep, dark hole where it’s cooler. Knowing we’ll probably have many 110 plus days this year, I’m already contemplating a summer with curtains drawn, air-conditioner blasting, and minimal clothes. This means poking my nose into the fresh air when the … Read more

Okay. I love to eat. Never had a problem with any kind of food. I even tried chocolate-covered ants once. They were okay, but I knew what they were so that experiment ended quickly. In the purest definition, I am a gourmand. I am a person who enjoys good food. I’ve been lucky all my … Read more