Downsizing Your Home? As a Boomer, one of these days you might face an inevitable event: downsizing. Will it be depressing? No, if from the get-go there are positive thoughts connected with the decision and it’s done at a good time–like when all the signs point to leaving the big house. Because it’s liberating when family …
A Mother’s Time Capsule, my newly released collection of stories, has its roots in the very beginnings of my quest to be a writer. Though I had two small children and a house to run, it was a time when women’s magazines, REDBOOK, McCALLS, were printing short stories written by women. I could do …
It’s a difficult decision to take control of an elderly parent’s finances. Beth Havey has good advice for how to proceed. Read more from Beth on her blog, Boomer Highway. When you visit your aging mother or father, have you noticed any of the following? ▪ Your father gets 5-10 letters a day from …
I was ten when I stepped into the spotlight one Christmas night and performed various roles in Gian Carlo Minotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. My older brother John and younger brother Bill also performed. Our audience consisted of four very proud women—my grandmother, two aunts and my mother, who periodically dabbed at their eyes with tissue …
We love autumn, and these thoughts from Beth Havey are lovely and true. Read more from Beth on her blog, Boomer Highway. How do you let go of stress? I’m a gardener who loves autumn. I appreciate the end of things, the respite. I need a break! After wild fertile spring blasts her seeds and …
