I was playing Mahjongg with a friend the other day when she told me what I needed to do with my life: more working out at the fitness center, avoid eating certain foods, don’t play Mahjongg with the two ladies in our group that aren’t fast enough. “You just can’t sit around writing all the […]

The emergency room doc sent me home with a piece of paper and instructions on how to elevate my bed to ease my acid reflux problem. His instructions made sense at the time. They turned out to be a pain some place other than my stomach last night. I had heard of GERD before but

If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around, does it make a sound? An age-old question. Similarly, if you write a book and only a handful of people read it, are you wasting your time? The question surfaces every time I think about starting my next new book. I am

I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m too old to fix scalloped potatoes and here’s why. I had been excited to prepare that special dish—and trust me it is special if for nothing more than the time it takes—for the eight people I was having for dinner last week. When I learned that one of

We had our neighbors over—six of them—for dinner last night. They are all new to us and great fun. We wanted the evening to be special and started planning three days out for the event. It was, we decided, worth the 90-minute trip to our favorite island grocery store to pick up Smitty’s famous pork

It was another column in The Daily Beast from a whiny individual—someone I’ve never heard of who claims to have multifaceted talents as an actor, comedian, and writer. In other words, a so-called “famous” individual who thinks we care about what he has to say. In this case, his column was about leaving the country

I notice that as I have gotten older, my body has become very vocal. My bladder and I, especially, carry on nightly discussions. They go something like this: Bladder: “Wake up, wake up, wake up!” Me: “What?” Bladder: “You heard me. Get up. Dangle your feet over the edge of the bed and head for

About ten days ago, shortly after I started the Eli Lilly drug Zepbound to help me lose weight, I got an email from a friend. “I have been waiting 2 weeks for my Zepbound from CVS. They have ordered it but it’s not in yet. I got on a Facebook Zepbound group and all diet

Let me take a moment to thank the six people and the bookstore owner who showed up at my “book signing” yesterday. We had a good time, and I’m grateful for the support they gave me and my new, as yet unpublished mystery/thriller, Under the Sand. The reason my new book is not yet published

I remember where I was when I ate my first Krispy Kreme donut. My teenage son brought a box home from the new bakery on 86th Street in Indianapolis and put them on the kitchen counter. They were warm. Fresh out of the oven, he said. I was skeptical until I put one in my