I was sorry to see that the military parade marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Armed Forces wasn’t exactly a proud or insp...

AI Image When I was very young, my grandmother kept me a lot because my mother worked a full-time job. One of the things my grandmother did ...

AI Image A reflection on AI, loneliness, and the lost art of conversation The other day, I was talking with a friend who mentioned she’d bee...

AI Image We almost all have feelings of inadequacy, insecurity, sadness, bewilderment, and low self-esteem, unless we’re suffering from a pe...

Last week I learned that my elementary school boyfriend passed away. He was the same age as I am. He had a SO, a grown child, and a grandson...

I am taking a break from working on my tax records and trying to come up with something to write about. My brain is shoved full of informati...

For a while now, I've been trying to decide if I am "real" enough in this blog. I read other people's writing, and it seem...

  Today is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I don't know a lot about this man, something I need to rectify. I am not a big biography rea...

"Hope is the thing with feathers," says Emily Dickinson in one of her more famous poems. It is also something I often feel I am at...

Yesterday, I was visiting with the woman who has cut my hair for a very long time. Regular readers may remember she retired pre-pandemic, an...

About 20 years ago, maybe a little less, when the Thanksgiving Day newspaper showed up in the paper box, it was as thick as two encyclopedia...

In the days after September 11, 2001, I remember seeing blue skies unmarred by the trails of aircraft, because the planes were grounded. It ...

When I was taking Advanced Placement English in high school (it was, in theory, college level English), I remember a little argument I had w...

I feel voiceless. Silenced. Quieted. Not just because some football player told a graduating class that the women should have no thoughts an...

One of the changes I've noticed since the onset of Covid is the decline of quality of products. This is not something one can blame a pr...

Generally, I do not post much on Facebook. I don't interact with many people even though I have hundreds of friends. I "like" ...

In The Lord of the Rings , one of the biggest plot contrivances that some folks get confused about is the introduction of the Eagles. We...