Be honest. Do you like the automated grocery store checkout counters? I’m talking about the ones that are do it yourself and are supposed to save time. I’ve used them on occasion and I thought they were okay if you have a carton of ice cream and your only other option is a line with … Read more
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